Words Worth Noting - February 17, 2026

“Again and again in 1967 we came across a statement said to be a Balinese proverb (sometimes a Balinese potter’s answer to an anthropologist’s question) to the effect that we Balinese ‘have no art, we just do everything as well as we can.’”

Charles Perry, The Haight-Ashbury: A History [I doubt the authenticity of this proverb but it is both revealing of the mindset at the time and also good advice up to a point].