365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica
Archive for June, 2011
Holding Patterns
I can’t do that just yet because ____________. Does your progress ever get stuck there? Mine does. The potential answers one can come up with to fill in the blank are virtually limitless. It seems that the brain is much more adept at coming up with reasons why we can’t than it is for reasons why we can. Why is [...]
Connectedness
I was watching a program last night showing an old Michael Jackson concert. It was old, I believe from the mid-80′s and appeared to have been filmed somewhere in Europe, perhaps Germany. There was an interesting point in the film where Jackson calls for security to remove a bug that had made its way onto the [...]
Thoughts on Co-Dependency
Recently I wrote about marriage. That good ones involve love exemplified by strong commitment. I even stated that someone should think hard before labeling a marriage “bad” and hence coming to a conclusion that it should end for that reason. I do believe if it gets to that point, then some serious self-evaluation should take place before [...]
Hurt
These words pretty much sum it up for me right now…. I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that’s real The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything What have I become My [...]
On a less Than Serious Note
Package Costa Rica is interviewing right now as Pablo is leaving for bigger and better things. Who can blame him? He has been a trustworthy, honorable and hard working employee. I will say the best I have had here in Costa Rica and I wish him extremely well. I interviewed an expat the other day, around [...]
An Ode to the Expat
We love Costa Rica because it is warm. The people are gentle and do us no harm. The mountains are green and the jungles are too. Teaming with animals, like a natural zoo. There are beaches galore with every color of sand. And waves of all sizes, hey ain’t it grand! We come here to [...]
Oh to be Beautiful
My membership to the website www.beautifulpeople.com was recently rejected and I am truly devastated. I mean how much rejection can one take in a two month time span? That was actually a joke. I caught an Anderson 360 segment last night about this utterly ridiculous web site and its more than ridiculous owner/founder. I just had to [...]
Oh to be Popular!
To the adolescent mind popularity is everything. To be “popular” is to be worthwhile. Those who struggle in that area are seen by their peers as inferior humans. This quest for popularity gives rise to the whole notion of “peer pressure” that often leads to severe adolescent angst. All my life I have struggled in that area. [...]
Los Pulmónes de San José
Just across from the stop light of Paseo Colón, and bordering the neighborhoods of Sabana, Pavas, and Rohrmoser is La Sabana Park. It is kinda like the “Central Park” of San José, a large rectangular area measuring 720,000 square meters (.72 square kilometers). It was officially declared a metropolitan park in 1977 during the Daniel [...]
Don’t Fight It, Invite It
In Buddhism, the counterpart to the devil of Christianity is Mara. The Buddha, while seeking enlightenment under the bodhi tree, was tempted by Mara, much the same way that Christ was tempted in the desert by Satan. And, like Christ, Buddha was able to withstand these temptations. There are other stories in Buddhist literature of encounters between [...]
