Como se dice…?

I don't quite know what to say. Life here is both focused and calm. We each have our daily rhythms and goals and coast happily along through the breezy morning and scorching afternoons and balmy evenings. I am working—I am billing hours—but at any point could skip off to enjoy the beach a bit more. I am not attempting to force these weeks into any strict definition of vacation or working or working vacation. I am just living.

I contrast the billed minutes on minutiae of CSS with last night, having returned from una fiesta tipica en Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, when I needed minutes lost in the stars. I strolled on the dark path to the beach, past the log that has been smoldering and burning for three days now, and then lay alone, on my back on the warm sand as the wind swept over me. I recalled fondly a high school friend having admonished me for not knowing the constellations—how else could I have expected to impress her on that starry hill? And I nearly slipped into sleep, at peace with the world and thinking of all the family and friends and love in my life.

¿Como se dice, "I am happy?"

Se puede decirlo sin palabra, con una sonrisa en el sol.