Feature Photo Above is Charlie Doggett with the baby Almond Tree he helped plant at Maquenque Ecolodge & Reserve, Boca Tapada, Costa Rica, April 2023 to help save the endangered Great Green Macaw. ABOUT MENU is below this introduction Introduction Finally in 2023, an update of this page, using a current photo made this year …
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No blog here yesterday. I am setting up another blog in Español because as my September 2 blog said, I really need to be using what I am learning with multiple Spanish learning efforts. Since I live alone and write a lot, it makes sense to write more in Spanish since I am not talking …
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Sign in Su Espacio bano as in most toilets anywhere in Costa Rica. Not nasty! Just practical! Anyone who has managed a septic tank understands or maybe you know someone who uses large wads of toilet paper that stop up even sewer lines. Stopped up plumbing is no fun! And I think most of the …
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Arenal Volcano I made this photo from the “Hanging Bridges” in the area in 2010. It is the most popular volcano because of its nearly perfect conical shape. It also reminds me of the strength and steadfastness of God in my life. I just shared this on my spiritual blog called HIS SPIRIT which …
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A Rural Road Near Atenas, Cost Rica (copied) I’m guessing she is a 30-something girl who wrote this descriptive testimony of living in Atenas where I will live in less than 8 weeks. Check it out to get a different description than I have shared yet. One of her photos is a road outside of …
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That’s the name of today’s post in my His Spirit Blog which again today relates to my decision about Costa Rica. Today’s sermon was a stretch to relate to my decision, but in my mind during the service I was doing that. As Elisha ripped his clothing to pieces I thought about how hard it …
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Possibly the most important post I’ve made yet on this Costa Rica decision process is on my spiritual blog called His Spirit with a post titled: Is God Laughing at Me? If you are following this decision-making process, I hope you click above and read that one post, my most thought-out post yet.
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Hibiscus, Luna Lodge, Corcovado N.P., Costa Rica by Charlie Doggett Metaphors of Modification Change blows across my life’s beach, In hopes that it will my mind teach. Shadowed as a lacy palm-like dream, In my eyes, wildlife and nature gleam. Pure life soars o’er a high canopy, Toucans, Parrots, Macaws will be. On colorful wings …
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One of my four blogs is titled HIS SPIRIT and is my spiritual blog. I just posted one there related to this big decision I am considering concerning Costa Rica titled: This Is the Way; Walk In It. Click title to see that discussion. Worship today was helpful in seeing the spiritual side of the …
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A few people in Costa Rica went to church every day this past Week, Semana Santa (Holy Week), with a special resurrection day spiritual emphasis each day. But factory and office workers across the country had the week off from work and with school out all week also, even more people in Costa Rica headed …
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