365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica
Archive for April, 2010
Reason #308: Do-Nuttins
You ever get the feeling of being paralyzed thinking that you should be doing “something,” but you’re not at all sure what that “something” you “should” be doing is, so you opt instead to do something that you are certain you should not be doing, but you do it anyway because, at least for the [...]
Reason #307: Costa Rica 365
Now that I am nearing the end of this blogospheric journey, the question I have been pondering is, what next? I have enough words, over 150,000, to turn this into a very thick and disjointed novel (War and Peace had over 500,000, but who’s counting anyway!). I realize that my posts tend to ramble all [...]
Reason #306: The Religion of Non-Conformity
Just got back from conducting a real estate tour and traveling around the Northern, Central and Southern Pacific coasts of this beautiful country. It is always kind of hard to get back into the “swing of things.” That is especially true when it comes to blogging. But I guess now is as good a time [...]
Reason #305: Vision versus Hindsight
I think it is better to drive one’s life much in the way one drives an automobile. That is, with a little bit of hindsight and a whole lot of vision. Sometimes circumstances cloud that vision, like darkness, fog, or a dirty windshield. In those cases we might have to rely on tools outside of [...]
Reason #304: Global Citizenship
These days we are connected to and affected by people in diverse locations of the globe more than ever before in history. To try to deny it is to be the proverbial ostrich with his head in the sand. As a result I believe it is important to strive towards “global citizenship.” What does that [...]
Reason #303: Stalking Al Gore
I don’t know why I have this habit of tuning into Bill O’Reilly around 6:00 PM (our time). I believe it is just to find topics to write about in this blog. I don’t always disagree with Bill the Bloviator, but I do disagree with the arrogant “I’m a GD American” attitude that emanates from [...]
Reason #302: Ghosts and Skeletons
We all have heard those worn-out cliches concerning our past. About ghosts and closeted skeletons. We all have them. The question is, do we allow them to define us, to stunt us? Are we a product of our past? Those ghosts and skeletons are now really nothing more than memories of events, things that happened. [...]
Reason #301: Colossal Crab of Consumption
I just returned from a visit to my old hometown of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The place hadn’t changed that much, same old tacky places and smiling faces. It never ceases to amaze me how many rooms can be piled on top of each other so close to the ocean. I would estimate that within [...]
Reason #300: Love and Power
Just finished reading The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz. I had posted about her the other day. She is the founder of The Acumen Fund, which is a non-profit venture capital fund. I know that sounds a bit oxymoronic, but her idea is to solicit charitable contributions which are put to work in enterprises that bring needed [...]
