Call it her vacation from me as she spends time with her sister Karen in California. Not only are they catching up on lots of news, playing outdoor pickleball and doing some ballroom dancing ( maybe you're beginning to realize why I'm home raking leaves), they also actually spent a day in Tijuana Mexico helping to deliver some much needed supplies to local street people.
"I really can't believe the Third World is just an hour from the American border," Terry said in our latest telephone conversation. "Karen's church in Carlsbad is helping with an initiative to build homes for many of the most needy. It's really an amazing project."
She went on to explain that although the language barrier was difficult to surmount, Terry and Karen had little trouble eliciting grateful smiles from everyone they met.
Her sister has always been a social advocate from her time in the poorest schools of Barbados to the hagwons of South Korea to a current literacy program in Escondido. Thus, this junket to Mexico comes as no real surprise.
I'm just grateful they didn't get Trumped at the border.
Terry's returns on Monday so that leaves me at least three days before I'd better start cleaning up the place.
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