Category: Costa Rica Daily Boost

My new, year-long project launched Sept. 15, 2019, and features daily posts on Costa Rican changemakers, artisans, traditions, wellness and more. From essays and pics to life hacks and recipes, I’ll chronicle the ways that great ideas from Costa Rica can help us all breathe easier and live better at a tough time in our world. Sign up (top right of this page) to receive a little dose of Costa Rica every weekday in your mailbox!

The babies have hatched and all’s right with the world (well, in their nest)!

April 3, 2020 stanleyobando

A Friday video from my house to yours.

Goodnight from Costa Rica

April 2, 2020 stanleyobando

A goodnight photo by David Havel.

Virtual Costa Rica: Have breakfast with scarlet macaws via Parrot TV

April 1, 2020 stanleyobando

Have a very Costa Rican open-air breakfast – from your home.

If she knew you, you were loved

March 31, 2020 stanleyobando

An homage that got me thinking.

Why hello there!

March 30, 2020 stanleyobando

Wishing you some monkey energy on this Monday morning.

Virtual Costa Rica: Invest in a future trip, or #dontcancelpostpone

March 27, 2020 stanleyobando

Two ways to #supportCostaRica during this time.

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The babies have hatched and all's right with the world (in their nest, at least, and that's something!). For today’s Boost I have a little slice of life – life beginning right next to my porch, as a matter of fact. // The yigüírro is Costa Rica’s national bird, and it seemed like a powerfully good omen to have a mother yigüírro make her next in the banana plant just a few feet from outdoor writing perch a few weeks ago. Today, my heroic decision to get up early and write was rewarded by the sight of tiny beaks gaping open as Mamá Yigüírro flew home with some worms. // I hope this brings a little joy to your Friday, and that you have a relatively peaceful and healthy weekend. If you’re blue or bored, don’t forget, you can have breakfast with a macaw on Sunday! How are you doing through all of this? As always, I’d love to hear from you. #costaricadailyboost #costarica #yigüirro #avescostarica #birdsofinstagram #birds #babybirds #tgif

Goodnight from Costa Rica! Yes, this is one of those “all I can muster is a lovely photo” days. But what a photo, by David Havel via Shutterstock. Wishing you rest, and comfort in the knowledge that the birds are resting and the bats are fluttering and the flowers will be waiting for us tomorrow, just the same. #costaricadailyboost #costarica #bats #wildlife #costaricagram #goodnight

#virtualcostarica ALERT: you can now have breakfast with scarlet macaws in Costa Rica, from the comfort of your home! The Macaw Recovery Network is tackling the COVID-19 crisis head-on with a YouTube channel full of lectures, bird footage and, yes, a chance to watch scarlet macaws frolic around their eating platform on Sundays while you have your own breakfast. Welcome to Parrot TV. // The Recovery Network’s mission is “to recover endangered neotropical parrot populations through leading a network that develops and implements best practices in conservation.” Tours at their Punta Islita Wild Macaw Reserve, on the Nicoya Peninsula, are suspended because of the COVID-19 crisis, so like many nonprofits in Costa Rica, they are suffering an economic impact. This is a great way to check out their work, plan a future tour and even support them, if you’re so moved! You can “adopt a macaw chick like Walt” or “help Elvira and Scarface breed in the wild.” (Honestly, I’ve never heard a better donation pitch in my whole life. Read more at the link in my bio.) // So subscribe to Parrot TV… and if you’ve got some beans and rice in the pantry, whip up some gallo pinto this Sunday and join the macaws for their morning nosebag. Let me know if you watch Parrot TV this week! Link in bio for more, and to subscribe for more Daily Boosts and Virtual Costa Rica fun. 📷Macaw Recovery Network. #costaricadailyboost . . . #costarica #costaricagram #thisiscostarica #visitcostarica #costaricafromhome #macaw #macawsofinstagram #parrots #birdsofinstagram #birder #sundaybrunch

I don’t think many of us are thinking about legacies right now. We’re thinking about what to do immediately for our families, towns, cities, countries and the world. // But truly, those thoughts and the actions they beget during a crisis like this are the best legacy we could hope for. // I saw a post this weekend that was both horribly sad and deeply inspiring. It was about a beloved preschool teacher who died from complications from COVID-19 in Missouri. Near the end, it said: “If you knew her, you loved her, and if she knew you, you were loved.” // We can’t fully control whether we are loved, but the second half of that homage – If she knew you, you were loved – stuck right in my heart. If she knew you, you were loved. What greater tribute could any human receive? What else can we be aiming for during this life, but that? // What else can we be aiming for during these strange and scary weeks when, if we are very lucky, we have been given a chance to better appreciate the people we take for granted, from our parents to our kids’ teachers to our supermarket clerks? // What else can we do, all those of us who have been smacked right across the face with a heightened understanding of what it means to be in a house, maybe to have a job? To have phones and computers and internet, to see people we love on those screens? To show love? // Ms. Juanita, may you rest in peace, and in all the love you clearly gave and won. . . . #costaricadailyboost #gratitude #love #msjuanita #thankyouteachers #weloveourteachers #covid #legacy #youwerelovedbeforeyouwereborn

Are you finding that life just comes in waves right now? With other things stripped away, you’re more sensitive to the highs and lows within your own (monkey) mind?I hope this Monday morning brings you some degree of perkiness. Even if it’s fully caffeine-induced. Even if it’s slightly maniacal. Even if it’s very much fleeting, which it will almost certainly be. Behind this little face wait the anxious hummingbird wings, the gentle sloth, the powerful outraged howler, the beauty and cruelty of the world. During these weeks we are meeting them all, over and over again. #costaricadailyboost #costarica #monkeys #monkeysofinstagram #globalcrisis #breathedeep #thisiscostarica #mondaymotivation

Call to Action for Travelers: Two concrete asks have emerged from Costa Rica's rural tourism sector. First, #dontcancelpostpone. And second, if you can, buy a gift card for a place you were planning to visit sometime in the coming years. You'll have a great trip to look forward to and you'll be helping a community survive. Link in bio for much more. 📷Casitas Tenorio B&B. #costaricadailyboost #inthistogether #juntos #ilovecostarica #travelpower #ruraltourism #turismorural #covıd19 #coronavirus #globalcrisis #visitcostarica #costaricagram

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