Posted by: Tom Peifer in guanacaste on
Feb 19, 2009
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Saint Bernard
At the age of 104, Clemente Campos is less of a threat to the womenfolk of Guanacaste than in the good old days. His son Gregorio recounts how, with the harvest stored away, his dad would mount up and ride off for months at a time, visiting friends in towns near and far, enjoying the fiestas and doing his best to romance whomever was available.
Learning to think like a watershed
Admit it. Rumors can be a great source of local information.
The earth turns to gold in the hands of the wise-Rumi, Persian mystic
My intent was to write a piece on the changing seasons. After all, it is a great time to see how your land survived the 10 feet of rain, decide whether you really want to water all those plants all summer long and begin to plan for the next possible deluge.
