…<\/p>\n
Driving in the dark. <\/p>\n
Little lights protrude, their gensets vibrate thru air and earth. They catch fish, eat them, sell them for petrol. Their satellite phones, available for a few hours a day, run on small car batteries collecting currents from the brightest sun on their solar panel. Ten years ago researchers from a few islands west installed those panels and yes, they still work. <\/p>\n
Their area is subconsciously left out by the government and they gained de facto independence because, simply, no one cared. A small patch on the shores of Flores, I doubt they would know it before a week if one day the country ceased to exist. They do have radio, their main source of information; and they do contemplate on why they should not be a part of the neighboring country which radio signal reach them better than any other. <\/p>\n
Their rocky narrow white roads are defined with beautiful rows of sunflower to their sides. Left and right. I pull my window down, put my head out like a dog leashed to my inner child again; and let sunflower petals slap my cheek everytime I pass by one. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven, twelve. Their pollens sedate me, making me believe that freedom is possible. <\/p>\n
Perhaps.<\/p>\n
[In the meanwhile, our jeep jumps up and down while trying to move smoothly forward.]<\/font><\/p>\n Then I sang to myself. Free breeze gathers tiny pieces of happiness glued together with honey.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … Driving in the dark. Little lights protrude, their gensets vibrate thru air and earth. They catch fish, eat them, sell them for petrol. Their satellite phones, available for a few hours a day, run on small car batteries collecting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tintinwulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}