The memory of faces is what I always bring home from travels far and near. The image above is a precious memory of a Balinese dancer. Years ago, we rented a large villa for the entire family in Canggu, Bali with a staff of 18 including 3 chefs, a full-time masseuse, a driver and 24-hour armed security. Marla’s prognosis after a year of horrendous cancer treatments was touch and go… so we decided to seize the day and make a big-time splurge to share our love of Bali with the family. On Mothers’ Day I surprised Marla with a private Balinese dance and gamelan orchestra performance at our villa. We had a total of 20+ performers! Marla cried when she saw it. I’ll never forget it!

On Edinburgh’s colorful Victoria Street.

A dramatic busker on Las Ramblas in Barcelona.

Dancers at a Nyepi (Balinese New Year) celebration in Tegallalang, in the Bali highlands.

Dancers at a friend’s wedding reception in Reims, France.

School girls relax after school ouside a warung near Banjar Kepitu, outside of Ubud, Bali.

While on a bike ride outside of Tanggayuda in Bali, Marla and I watch boys having fun next to a Balinese New Year Ogoh-ogoh statue.

A headman of a Maasai Village in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.

Fabulous Bayon Temple in the Angkor Archeological Park in Seam Reap, Cambodia. A juxtaposition of faces…a young monk surrounded by fascinating faces carved in stone.

Workers at one of our wood carving suppliers in Bali.

A fish market in the town of Amalfi, Italy.

While in a Beijing hutong I spied this innovative pet shop on wheels.

A candy shop on the Rue Saint-Louis en I’lle.

Worshippers pray next to a reclining Buddha at the Ayutthaya Historical Park in Thailand.

Smiling faces at one of our wood slab table suppliers in Mas, Bali.

A young girl wearing thanaka paste on her face sells watermelon in Bago, Myanmar. Shwemawdaw Pagoda, or the “Golden God Temple”, is one of the tallest in the country.

Happy faces at the Hula Hula Beach Bar on the island of Hvar in Croatia.

A monk at the market in Bago, Myanmar.

Outside of Banjar Kepitu in Bali.

In the town of Pak Ou, in Laos.

A guard in the “Mausoleum of Mohammed V” in Rabat, Morocco.

A woman sells handicrafts in a tiny village on the Kok River outside of Chiang Rai, Thailand.

Young women at a Shinbyu, or novitiation ceremony for new monks, at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.

The “Saturday Walking Street” market on Wua Lai Road in Chiang Mai. A woman from the Akha Tribe sells her jewelry.

At a temple in Hanoi, Viet Nam.

At a photo shoot on the island of Hvar in Croatia.

Faces in the window. Window shopping at night in Brussels, Belgium.

Photos: Dick gentry. Not to be used without permission.