El Tri Color!

This is my lovely daughter Amber, and awesome little grandson, Sebastian James, and he is sporting his Ecuador Jersey from the National team.  Copa Mundial here we come!  Si se puede!
Can I just say that being far away from kids and grandkids just is not my favorite thing.  I am looking hard for some eucharisteo there, but not sure!

 Austin hiking at Hume, enjoying nature!  There is something important, and orienting about getting next to something huge, whether its mountains, or oceans, or Redwood trees (below) to remind ourselves of how tiny we really are, and how powerless we are!  However God is powerful, and the creator of such great beauty!

 So, today I am headed out of the city, to our lovely Youth World Hacienda El Refugio, to sit with a friend, and then sit on her porch (below) and soak up some of the tranquility  of the countryside.  Hear birds, and watch humming birds, pray and think!  And maybe do some reading and journaling.
We will see! 

 Looking out from the porch!  I will sit here in about an hour! :)  Yeah!

More of the views I will have this afternoon! My soul needs to get out of the busyness, and the noise of the city, especially living within a stone's throw of 5 or 6 huge apartment building construction cites, one of them is so close the workers can see what I am eating!
So, even as I write, a gas truck is honking (they do all day, every day) and a truck is passing and someone is on a loudspeaker saying that they are here to buy any kind of recyclable steel, wire, washers, dryers, etc. etc., there is construction going on in our building, and that's just a little of why, I need to get out for just a few hours, and hear nothing but birds!  I am so grateful to have this beautiful spot to go to. 

And finally, can you see why I miss this little man soooooooo much!  So if you live close to your grandbabies, today make a point of squeezing them, and think of me and pray that I can be a creative grandma, finding ways to love from so far away!