365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica
Archive for March, 2010
Reason #289: Playing the Blame Game
Do you ever get the feeling that life is about “paying back” for all the bad stuff you did before? Sometimes I get a suspicious feeling that that just could be the case. This usually comes on when things aren’t going exactly the way I had hoped. A hangover usually accompanies this dreadful feeling that [...]
Reason #288: A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures
I have always been a word-oriented person. I love to read, novels, self-help, poetry, news, etc. A picture is a static image of realty and can be quite enjoyable. However, reality is anything but static, which is why “pictures” are not really, well, real. We see photos of these beautiful people plastered on signs and in [...]
Reason #287: Bob Hentzen – 1 in a 100
In the movie Forest Gump, Tom Hanks ran because, well, “he just felt like running.” In real life, Bob Hentzen, founder of the CFCA, or Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, walks, but he has a definite purpose for doing so. That purpose is to help the poorest children and elderly of Central and South America, [...]
Reason #286: The End of Time
People enter into this world and exit it, yet time goes on. From a religious perspective the end of life on earth signals the beginning of eternity, or a time without end. So what is all the talk these days about the end of time, or the end of this world as we know it? [...]
Reason #285: Fear = Absence of Purpose
Recently watched the movie Invictus. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It is one of those inspirational movies that Hollywood doesn’t make that often, but when they do it proves why movies can matter. The story is of Nelson Mandela and his ascension from 27 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island to [...]
