MyShadowProductions #58 - Honduras Trip and Denver Sunrise

Hi everyone!

I have a trip planned from November 01 to December 15, 2021 to an area I will call Loma de Luz (Hill of Light) on the north coast of Honduras along the Caribbean Sea near Balfate, Honduras. I learned of this opportunity through a brief mention by someone in an article I was reading about Travel in Central America.

The area around Loma de Luz has “emerged” around a Hospital started in 2003.

CLICK HERE for the Loma de Luz / Cornerstone Foundation website for more details.

Clicking on their Newsletter link I read the April 21 newsletter and the following two items were of particular interest to me.

Early in the newsletter it says:

Don Paco carved and carefully placed a Bas-relief of Poinsettia flowers, the flowers that here we call “Pasqua” (“Passover”) and are associated with Easter and subsequently with resurrection.  Don Paco didn’t have to carve and place this special stone poem. It was neither requested nor expected.  He did it as something special for us, and… because he built this wall “como para el Señor,” as unto the Lord.

Pasqua is my paternal grandmother’s name and in Italy (where she was born in Fonte Alto, Veneto) it means Easter.

Later in the newsletter:

News and Needs: 

Skills Needed: At Loma de Luz we always have need for missionaries with special skills. One of our most important ongoing needs currently is for a construction engineer. We are always growing at Loma de Luz.  There are now about 75 buildings at Loma de Luz to maintain and remodel, and there are always several new building projects underway. 

I feel like I know a little bit about “Construction Engineering” and it has been very rare to see volunteer opportunities in that field :) The plant watering “job” looks pretty cool too :)

CLICK HERE for the April 21, 2021 newsletter.

And, Click here for some information on local Community Development projects that Loma de Luz is involved in.

I will follow up on this “Vision Trip” ( as the Loma de Luz volunteer coordinator describes it ) with future blogs.

Now, changing the subject, I recently moved to a different apartment building in Denver. The new building is only a block from my previous building but I am very fortunate and grateful that the rent is much lower, the apartment is bigger and more comfortable and I have a seventh floor apartment with views to the East and North.

Today, I just wanted to share some photos of the sunrise:

At the same time the sun was again rising for more than the billionth time, the situation in the photos below was also within my view:

Someone sleeping on the parking lot.

Parking lot “owner” screamed for the person to leave.

The person did not respond immediately but walked away about 15 minutes later.

This isolated incident is only a very small example of a much, much larger, serenity challenging, societal problem in Denver.

I am going to take it as a reminder to be very grateful for all I have and all I don’t have.

Have a great last two weeks of October !!