365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica
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Forever Young
Bob Dylan on growing young…… May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay [...]
Letting Go – Round 2
Posted this back in July 2011, but then it was all bluster and bluff (or, better yet, bullshit), this time all business…. I have the hardest time doing that…..uh, letting go. I would rather ride my problems into submission like a bronco-buster on the back of a wild mustang. Sometimes that approach can leave you with [...]
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth?
My nephew-in-law, Sebas, visited me during Semana Santa and we had a week filled with surfing, horse-back riding and adventure. One afternoon, after hiking around in Chirripo National Park that morning, we set out in La Poderosa to discover the best way to see the Diamante waterfall, supposedly the highest in Costa Rica at 600 feet. [...]
Live Like You Were Dying
Why does it take near death experiences, or stuff that really shakes things up, to get us humans to live? I don’t mean live in the sense of maintaining some semblance of a sentient state, preferably above ground, but live in the sense of not doing it according to the demands and expectations of any [...]
A Relaxed Un-Consciousness
Mine has been anything but lately. If you believe in the concept of luck, it has been noticeably absent from my life in the last few months. Ah, woe is me. Here I am living in sheer paradise and lamenting about how bad things are. Don’t you feel sorry for me? I think it all [...]
Organized Religion
Organized religion to me seems much like team sports. We have our favorite teams that we root for. We wear their colors and paste their bumper stickers on our cars. We go to rallies and root for our team’s success and for the demise of those “other guys.” We only really like to associate with [...]
My Life
I have one of those sticky notes on my bathroom mirror that reads “I wonder how my life will turn out today?” The intended emphasis is wonder…the wonder-ment of life. But tonight I read it differently. Tonight what spoke to me is a sense of possession. In our Western capitalistic society we are all too [...]
When You’re Strange
“When you’re strange, no one remembers your name,” sang Jim Morrison. Right now, I feel dreadfully strange, for all the reasons Morrison mentions in that strange song. He was of course an expert on the topic of strangeness. This place, Perez Zeledon, is strange….strangely exotic. I don’t quite know what to make of it. It [...]
Zuckerberged
The world owes a deep debt of gratitude to Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. Just in case you have been cryogenically frozen for the past ten years or so, Zuckerberg is the inventor of Facebook and also the world’s youngest billionaire. What’s Facebook you ask? Oh yea, that is a web site that allows you to pursue [...]
From Test to Testimony
Consider the following string of events: I begin the year in Colombia with “family” only to return first and learn that my “wife” has no intentions of ever returning; I move to a new place where I know no one, my only companion being Wilson, and then he up and vanishes; I get a $400 [...]
