When I catch myself whining about the rain or all the work to do picking up leaves and debris I have to ask myself: "What part of 'rainforest' don't you understand?" How beautiful is cascading water in a tropical forest? Everyday I'm bathing in a stream fed by springs and rain, with fish that used to entertain me in an aquarium.
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\"Cara de Pau\" written by Jennifer B.,
July 14, 2006
Sounds like you get to be country mouse & city mouse all at the same time! I love that idiom "cara de pau" - just the way it sounds coming off the tongue! It's actually the only Brazilian idiom I know, but it's so expressive and has such wonderful meaning. Thanks for painting a wonderful picture of life in Bahia where the beauty of waterfalls and orchids in their natural settings is the postcard we all expect, but balanced precariously in the encroaching cattle pastures and the buzz of chainsaws, it becomes a little more complex and thought-provoking!
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thick headed neighbors written by Alan B.,
July 23, 2006
Thanx much for tuning me in to the realities of life around Itacare. I realize now that it is not more advanced than right here in Panama uplands. There is always a spoiler in Paradise! Whether its a cow, a noisy fighting rooster, thick headed macho neighbor or money grubbing corrupt cops. I was fascinated and charmed by Itacare when I visited and have had visions of maybe living there, thinking that musically and culturally it was so much more advance than here in panama. And maybe right in town it is, but it sounds like you have to deal with much of the same old %$&/( that I dealt with for 12 yrs in Costa Rica and now 3 yrs in panama. There is no escape.........
When I catch myself whining about the rain or all the work to do picking up leaves and debris I have to ask myself: "What part of 'rainforest' don't you understand?" How beautiful is cascading water in a tropical forest? Everyday I'm bathing in a stream fed by springs and rain, with fish that used to entertain me in an aquarium. 
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