San Jose Costa Rica Revisited

I just watched this video on yahoo about farmers markets http://www.yahoo.com/s/659897 And I got this flash of San Jose Costa Rica and I feel a pull. I will do my best to capture this below.

Small and cozy and family
Connections and being in the right place
Magic

There was this energy this flow, since the rainbows were in town, perhaps it was more
Costa Rica is small and that run into each other over again vibe was oh so present
San Jose is even smaller
Big Parks in the middle of town
Spanish speaking locals with enough English speaking foreigners to make me feel comfortable
My Spanish grows and I begin to dream in it

A cab ride anywhere in the city is but 1 colones
Taking cabs everywhere of distance or if time is short
And saturday morning there is a farmers market
And little known there is an organic farmers market
We go in the rain
Fresh white cheese and bread
Eggs and the fruit
The fruit is all so so exotic, tropical, unconventional
It is like magic
The rain is always falling and beautiful a few times a day

After writing this I found another video much closer to my experience. While in Costa Rica I spent time in the South Caribbean at a place called Punta Mona. I met Steven there and he is featured in this video about sustainable farming in Costa Rica that does more justice to the Costa Rican experience.

Ordinary moment

Driving from my doctors appointment I decided to head up to the Y and work out for a bit. A car pulled out in the opposite direction on the street not far from the building. I decided to turn around and take it. I pulled off the parallel job perfectly and jumped out onto the street. Early spring, daffodils and tulips sprung every here and there as well as bright orange and neon green markings on the street and sidewalk. Little colorful flags littering the lawns showed clearly that there would be some digging going on soon but for now there were just little splashes of color everywhere. The wind would blow hard every few minutes from a different direction. Strange what the weather had been doing lately. Two cardinals made love in a tree above me as I walked by, yes it was that time of year.

Family

One mention, in passing and like a spark
A flood of emotion and twist
From on mention
And what is it?????
I should know better
But lonely has found me and keeps bothering
So, I make a promise
That this time it will be different
That I will see my way through
To a light
To a smile
To laughter
And to Love
And to Truth

Can you feel me
Can you see
Can you run faster
Cause I am
Cause this is here now
And I’m gone

You know so many people have the same thing to say
About me
And I can not say the same
And I have to wonder about that

Calling all beings of light
Of magic and wonder that dream reality
And call reality dreams
Calling all those that laugh in the face of darkness
And those that love the heat
I am in need of a new
In need
Those that fear change not
Those that grow
Those that just sit
Those that just be
Those that just
Family