Do What You Feel

It is a good feeling to wake up next to someone you love, especially after waking up alone for almost a month. We woke up to sunshine on Dan’s first day of his visit with me here in Nosara- he must be good luck because it was the first day of sunshine in a long time. We had to return our rental car by ten so we packed the back pack for the beach and headed to town. After returning the car to Alamo- $50 for 24 hours plus the cost of gas is a good way to go if you don’t mind driving. A shuttle to the Liberia Airport, two and one half hours away is at least $150- we walked through town and grabbed a coffee and baguette at Café De Paris, a restaurant and bakery that sells delicious pastries, croissants, crusty baguettes stuffed with meats, cheese and vegetables and a variety of freshly baked goodies, and headed to the beach. Sunday at the beach, especially when it’s sunny is a local affair, everyone is there. Today the surf was huge and there were too many heads in the line-up to count. We layed our blanket on the sand next to my friends, Catherine and David and drank in the scene. The beach was full of surfers, children of all ages, sun bathers reading, beach combers, walkers and runners. I introduced Dan to my friends as they passed by, inducing some raised eyebrows from a few gentlemen who had assumed I was a single woman traveler. It was a nice way to initiate Dan and a great way to experience the “local scene”something that is hard to do in the high season with all the visiting tourists. Nathanial, from Boston and one of the newly graduated yogis, was squeezing one more surf session in before his departure later in the day and wanting a photo of himself with is surfboard, and without his camera, I offered to take a picture of him with my camera and email it to him later. Nathanial was one of the Zen Café regulars and was always working on some words of wisdom or question. Today he said, “Act your highest good and do what you feel”. I love the fact that here in Nosara you hear things like this on a daily basis. Nathanial is a twenty something man who lives on his own and in order to come here and realize his dream to transform himself into a yogi, he wrote letters to everyone he could think of who cared about him to help him on his quest and here he is. All this made for good conversation between Dan and me on our beach blanket as we basked in the sun. Dan said it is about being honest with yourself and others even if the truth hurts. It reminds me of a prayer I heard at my very first yoga class with Danielle a month ago here in Nosara. Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu- May all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the words, thoughts and actions of my own life in someway contribute to that happiness and freedom. For me acting your highest good means, “do no harm”, right actions that contribute to happiness and freedom, not pain and suffering. A lot to think about and talk about, but instead we went to Casa Tucan and drank fresh fruit daiquiris and ate a big bowl of fresh ceviche before walking home to more relaxing in the pool and lounging in the hammocks. One thing about love, it will get you out of your head.