This past weekend we visited the Bribri tribe in Talamanca. It is always touching how these indigenous groups, poor in material wealth, but rich in human spirit, receive us so warmly and openly. A group of young Bribris put on a theatrical presentation for us entitled “Donde Esta Pablo Presbere?” Pablo Presbere, or Pa-Blu, was […]
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Lately you can find any number of web sites dedicated to helping you “reduce your carbon footprint.” There are even “carbon footprint calculators” that measure exactly how much carbon you are spilling into the atmosphere and contributing to our planet’s overheating. This is all well and good, but in my opinion all this focus on […]
It seems that Western society is designed along the lines of the following conspiracy….the solvers of problems create the problems to be solved. Take Western medicine and medical care, for instance. It just seems that we have set up a society so full of stress and poison that it creates a constant and never-ending stream […]
Today, this morning in fact, I get to finally do something I have been waiting a long long time to do….pick up my permanent Costa Rican residency card, or “cedula” in local vernacular. If you have followed this blog for a while, you may have noted that achieving the “holy grail” of residency has been […]
If you read blogs about Costa Rica they usually focus in on the writer’s daily experiences, good or bad. There are some really good ones out there, but if you pay too much attention to what is being said, you could get the wrong impression. Often, since most people live in or around San Jose, […]
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, […]
I used to think I knew what “poor” meant. In the U.S., if you do not have as much as others in your community, you may say to yourself, or to your loved ones, I (or we) are poor. I heard that a few too many times when growing up. Then I began spending a […]
Recently during our bi-weekly team meeting at Package Costa Rica, one of my employees nailed me for having certain non-sustainable habits…like leaving the office and forgetting to turn off the lights. He’s right, there’s no doubting that. Sustainability, if you’ll remember, is about managing our interactions and impacts and it requires focused thought until you […]
Lily and I celebrated this Valentine’s Day weekend in Monteverde. Among other things, we took a guided tour into the Cloud Forest Reserve. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and displayed a passion and love for nature that was inspiring. While discussing the peculiar sexual habits of colibris (or hummingbirds) he made a statement that really […]
My last post addressed, or attempted to address, my personal definition of what it means to act sustainable. However, what is the goal, or the ultimate aim of sustainability? I believe only in knowing that can one truly bend the bow, release that arrow of ardent action and hit the true target. This post will […]
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