So, having stopped actively searching for contacts for the garden, two things plopped in my lap. Last night, while Erroll, Lindsay and I giggled at the 70s and 80s videos that they seem to play everywhere here (David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, The Cure) and I tried with little success to chat via facebook w/friends, in comes Don Carlos. He's here for another 4 day work stint with Cafe de Paris. He has been thinking about how to connect my ideas and the culture here. Seeing it as a challenge worth while, he's come up with a few ways to entice people to think in the right direction.
-Because in Costa Rica, there is suspicious "nothing is free" attitude toward Western thinking, he suggests connecting with the Nosara Rep (comes out in both Spanish and English) and putting in an article explaining the virtues of eating good, healthy food grown locally and the iniquities of a limited diet, such as the likes of the local one.
-His best idea is to rent some land central (to Nosarians and foreigners alike) and start the thing, inviting anyone and everyone to join in the process, and stating up front "first come first serve" for plots.
Simple. Sweet.
Today, I sat, trying (again) to get things up and running online (very sketchy connections lately) at Robins, and found myself talking with a recently graduated student of the Yoga Institute's teacher training course. We'd seen each other around and thought we'd met. Name's Brian. Brian is a nomad, here to learn, but also to work as a massage therapist, DJ at La Luna and advisor to an Expat setting up a Health and Wellness centre from scratch. Turns out the Health and Wellness place is where the Permaculture designer I've spoken about, Ryan, did his consult about 6 weeks ago. Small world, this Nosara. Brian gave me two new contacts, the Nosara Rep Editor, Emilianna, and also the Health and Wellness guy, Darin McBratney.
Feels a lot like serendipity
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