This post is apt to be one of those cathartic ones that has me “thinking out loud” (in written form) and trying to answer a question that has been bouncing around in my head. That question this morning is…what does sustainability really mean? I think that is important because I tend to see myself as some sort of […]
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I wrote yesterday about Ryan Bingham and his lighter backpack theory of life. In case you’re wondering who that is, he is the fictional frequent flyer character played by George Clooney in the movie Up in the Air. Bingham’s suggestion, if you’ll remember, was to lighten your pack by discarding things that “tie you down.” […]
Saw the movie Up in the Air (here, Amor sin Escalas) the other night. George Clooney always cracks me up. Ever since Everett McGill and his Dapper Dan pomade in Oh Brother Where Art Thou, he has been one of my favorite actors. While his character was as absurd as many of the others he […]
The answer to that may just be yes, as the latest Unimar poll data shows that Laura Chinchilla, the PLN (or Liberacionista) candidate is showing a strong lead over her closest competitors in the days leading to the election on February 7th, this Sunday. To be declared the winner, Chinchilla would need to muster at […]
Lately we have been engaged in a project with the indigenous of Costa Rica. We are creating a web site that features indigenous arts and crafts and in the process of creating it we are visiting and shooting video of five tribes known for their art. Last week we visited Guaitil, where the tradition of […]
“Costa Rica” I can remember when that name carried an exotic and mysterious appeal. Where is that place exactly? Isn’t it DANGEROUS down there? I mean, do they have roads? Can you drink the water? Well, all that has changed in large part now as Costa Rica has become a new house-hold word in the […]
I have written before about my view that “American-style” consumerism is at the root of many problems the world faces. Often I have contrasted that with what prevails here in Costa Rica, which, comparatively speaking, is a low consumption society…although the influx of gringos the last few years threatens to change all that. Now granted, […]
From my experience it seems that as soon as you feel satisfied with the status quo, that things seem to be “running on all cylinders,” suddenly and unexpectedly weird things begin to happen. It seems at times that these random events derive from forces that are conspiring against you. Investing in the stock market is […]
You probably don’t know this, but Costa Rica is on the verge of electing its next President. One of the candidates, Luis Fishman, who entered the race to replace Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, who was convicted in a corruption scandal and is now under house arrest, has adopted a campaign slogan of “menos malo,” which […]
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