Simply, Lesa

June 7, 2010 at 12:26pm I have been Simply Living in Costa Rica for the past 2.5 years, I love it here and the community of friends and "family" that support each other in the San Isidro de General area. I have been living and Simply Helping Others in an Indigenous community called Rey Curre' for a little more than a year and have learned a LOT!. One wise woman once said that it often takes a while for the living to catch up with the believing and I have found that to be true. There have been times when I gave perhaps more than my share and that choise caused me to become overwhelmed. This year one of my goals is to share more appropriately in ways that do not overwhelm me personally. I am being more careful to check in with my priorities, values and ethics as I consider the decisions set before me. I choose to support small local businesses and creative individuals and prefer not to support large corporations. I often shop locally by buying produce in fa...

May 22, 2010 at 10:56pm I was up rather early this morning, again trying to come up with an idea to help one of my neighbors, when the thought came to me that there are a whole lot of people out there more qualified than me that could come up with a solution much more quickly than I can. My neighbor's house was built 2 years ago by a Costa Rican government agency. The agency decided which design to use, where to place the home on the building lot and who to use to build it. In their great unplanned wisdom, they built my neighbor's house so that her front door and porch is IN the leech field for the house that I rent and live in. Everyday, as I wash dishes in my kitchen sink, I see this problem. I also see my neighbor's 4 year old daughter and often her 1 year old nephew, playing on the porch with the adults trying to keep them out of their rather small yard. I would love to find a healthy, affordable option to give this family a healthier yard and home. I recen...