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Designing the entrance to the Spiritual Sanctuary

We continue our update on our spiritual sanctuary in Costa Rica project.

A while back I asked one of my oldest and closest friend, Tim Davies, if he would help me with my project of building a spiritual sanctuary in Costa Rica. He immediately said yes. He flew 30 hours to be here with us to begin the initial work on the sanctuary. Tim owns and runs an award winning landscaping company, Tim Davies Landscaping, in West Australia for the last 30 years. Today I realized why he's an amazing landscaper. He laid out the 200 meter (660 feet) driveway of the sanctuary in such a beautiful and graceful way. We worked on it for 2 days and this morning he just nailed it. Thank you Tim. We've designed the driveway to be canopied by beautiful jacaranda trees that will make an arch of purple flowers as guests drive down it. The end of the driveway pulls up next to a giant Banyan tree and a grove of Delonix Regia trees that are covered entirely in red blooms during the end of the dry season (April-May).

Tim gets very resourceful. He takes a long stick, cleans and cuts it to the length he wants and we use it to help us measure the entrance driveway.

The stick comes in very handy. Tim is very particular about the distance between the trees and the little details.

Finally we stake a couple of hundred flags to mark out the long driveway.

May 28, 2014
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First trees planted on the Spiritual Sanctuary

We planted our first trees on our spiritual sanctuary in Costa Rica today. A big day and the beginning of a wonderful future. 30 coconut trees were planted today with the help of 2 hard working locals. The Coco trees consisted of 15 dwarf varieties and 15 tall ones. It was a lon
May 28, 2014
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Tree Planting on our Spiritual Sanctuary, Nosara, Costa Rica

This is a further sharing of the massive tree planting that took place on our Spiritual Sanctuary in Nosara, Costa Rica on May 28th. I've fallen behind on my blog posting and hope to catch up this week as I spend the summer at home in New York City. We acquired about 120 trees f
May 22, 2014
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Birth of a Spiritual Sanctuary in Nosara, Costa Rica

We are so happy to officially announce our project of building a spiritual sanctuary and botanical garden in Nosara, Costa Rica. In 2013 my wife and I bought 16.5 acres of land in Nosara, Costa Rica and we are embarking on an adventure to create a sanctuary focused on spiritual
May 18, 2014
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CompaNanny trains Nannies to Raise Children a Positive Way

On the weekend of May 17th outside of Amsterdam, Netherlands, I conducted a corporate retreat for a wonderful Dutch company called CompaNanny. CompaNanny provides high-quality childcare throughout Amsterdam, and it is one of the nation's largest nannying agencies. It's well known
May 15, 2014
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The Art of Balanced Living with the Barcelona Entrepreneurs' Organization

I had the pleasure of traveling to Barcelona, Spain, to conduct an all day workshop on the Art of Balancing Life for the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) Barcelona chapter on May 15. The event took place about an hour outside of Barcelona in the Spanish countryside. A beautiful d
Apr 23, 2014

Grand Central Station, New York City

I hardly ever photograph in New York City but today I had to return a wide angle lens that I had rented for my recent trip to the Himalayas in Nepal and on the way to the store I stopped at Grand Central Station and took the following images. It is definitely one of my favorite b