Posts by Mountain Shadows
AN ACT OF GIVING GENERATES LOVE AND LIKES
An Act of Giving Generates Love and Likes By: Sheryl Wilde Who’s the “World’s Cutest Guinea Pig”? If you follow the latest celebrity animals on the internet (and who doesn’t?) you may already know these four-legged legends: Boo the Pomeranian – touting two books, a calendar and a stuffed animal line, Boo has amassed more than…
Read MoreM:POWR EXHIBITION OF ART
We invite you to an incredibly amazing, warm and wonderful collaboration between Mountain Shadows Outreach Services, Art Miles Mural Project, and California State University San Marcos – Tukwut Leadership Center. For more information about this event please contact Flor Angel,Mountain Shadows Outreach Director, at fangel@mtnshadows.org or 760-736-8983.
Read MoreEagle Scout Christian Bowen
Eagle Scout Christian Bowen and Mountain Shadows Connect4 Fun By: Sheryl Wilde Connect4 is a vertical game of tic-tac-toe. Players take turns dropping colored discs from the top into a seven-column, six-row, vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the next available space in the column. The objective of the game is to…
Read MoreDON KING: ON KILIMANJARO
By: Sheryl Wilde Step. Stop. Breathe. Step. Stop. Breathe. It was like living in a barbeque pit for 9 days – a barbeque pit measuring more than 24 miles across. Ash filled the air – burned the nostrils, the lungs. And the dust. A storm cloud of dust and ash rose on the 50-mile-an-hour winds,…
Read MoreEAGLE TRANSPORTATION: MAKING CHRISTMAS WISHES COME TRUE
BAMM! The shiny new Mercedes-Benz convertible crashed into the wall of Laurel Park house as Marquez squealed with glee. BAMM! The car hit the wall again. Then, his eyes bright, lost in a world of his imagination, he revved the engine, screeching out a tight 360 with the remote-controlled car. Many of you may know…
Read MoreZuly Sanguino
January 10, 2017 No arms. No legs. No limits. By: Sheryl Wilde “To state the obvious, I have no limbs, and this has placed me in the group of people born into this world with immediate challenges. But I am here right now to let you all know that life is worth living no matter…
Read MoreA Mountain Shadows Journey into a Wonderful Life
December 20, 2016 I’ll never forget the day when Sandra* told me this story about her son, Luke*: Luke was sitting alone in a long hallway. He was hunched forward in his wheelchair, apparently sleeping. Sandra scanned the white-walled hallway of the state institution. It was empty, except for her son. She was thankful he…
Read MoreThanksgiving: A Message of Thanks
November 22, 2016 Happy Thanksgiving! “Doing things for others makes me feel good in my heart. Many people don’t take the time to help others. Many people take things for granted. Many don’t realize the gifts they’ve been given. We should cherish every breath we take. We can all do something wonderful.” -Brittany Barnson, Mountain…
Read MoreA Story of Hope
October 18, 2016 Mila: A Mountain Shadows Story of Hope By: Sheryl Wilde If I told you my story, you would hear hope that wouldn’t let go.* She was born in the middle of the night, in a shower, to a 13-year-old girl, who didn’t know she was pregnant. She was unresponsive when first responders…
Read MoreMountain Shadows Outreach: Painting from the Heart
September 27, 2016 By: Sheryl Wilde Every child is an artist until he’s told he’s not an artist. At Mountain Shadows we wholeheartedly agree with this statement, originally uttered by John Lennon in the 1960’s. And recently, at Mountain Shadows Outreach Services, we invited our clients to tap into their inner-artist and unleash their full…
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