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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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