But it came out in my quickness to pick up local expressions, local lore, wherever we found ourselves, and in my wholehearted admiration for subsistence farmers and fishermen, and the ease with which I fell into a kind of intimacy with many of the people we met. This was a hopelessly New Age wish, and I would never have mentioned it to Bryan. I wanted to change, to feel less existentially alienated, to feel more at home in my skin, as they say, and in the world. I had come here to learn, I figured, and not just a few things about some far-flung places and people. “I was straining to understand the worldview of the islanders whom we moved and lived among-and I had been doing so since before Guam, when I let myself sink deep into the coral-pebble speed-checkers subworld around the sakau bowl in Pohnpei.
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