Beautiful Life and Beautiful People!

The Richmond Review is a free of charge publication to every household in Richmond City. Usually, it's delivered to your door front. It comes with a lot of advertisement, sale and discount coupons. This morning at about 9:00am, when I opened the door and to pick up today's issue, I am so delighted to find the covering article "Facing Death, Matthew finds peace!" and the photo next to it, two thumbs up with the blue colored "Life-O-Life" T-shirt. (*I used to wear XL size, and now even with a M size I find it roomy! Hahahah!) Considering that the interview was only done this Tuesday, i.e. two days ago, with all the writing, editing and publishing tasks, having this article in my hands 9:00am this morning is like an impossible task, and yet made possible! Unbelievable efficiency!

Mr Matthew Hoekstra has done an excellent job in summarizing our dialogue and the key messages are carried very well. Ms Jennifer Gauthier's photos (the one on front page and another one on Page 3) are so beautiful. Thank you Matthew! Thank you Jennifer! And thank you for all the beautiful people/staff in Richmond Review to make this happen!

The objectives of this Blogger remains the same: To encourage open discussion on the end-of-life stage, and even better to enjoy the death and dying process. And to make friend with Cancer, to understand him/her, to live with him/her and to treat him/her well!

Being the readers of this Blogger, please participate in help promoting these ideas to those you may think appropriate and may be benefited from it. No matter how little step we take, it's done for the betterment of the community!

Again, thank you for providing me with all these positive energies and make my new voyage such an enjoyment! Thank you and let's continuous to work in this direction and make this community a better place to live in.

Fifteen Thumbs Up!

After the long weekend, there is a little rain this morning just enough to wet the floor. A 6-feet tall handsome man arrived at my Home Care Unit sharp on time at 10:30am. He is Mr Matthew Hoekstra of Richmond Review. The whole dialogue took about 45 minutes and we have covered most subjects from my Blogger to the little known story of my elder sister, Angela, who passed away 22 years ago after a full year struggle with colon cancer. She died at the age of 25.

A little later, Richmond Review's photographer, Ms Jennifer Gauthier, with her full Nikon gear came at 11:30am and we took quite a few shots inside the house, and later on outside the house using the sky as the background, and as a tradition now, I am putting my two thumbs up, and the big smile!

Matthew said the article will probably be out this week. Keep in mind the Richmond Review is out usually Thursday and Saturday, so watch out for the article this week then. As of today, it's the fifteen thumbs up! And this number shall continue to grow.

Thank you Matthew, Jennifer and everyone supporting this Blogger. We certainly hope the community can be more open and receptive to "death and dying", as well as easier to "make friend with cancer". It's certainly an enjoyable to share all these wonderful thoughts with the Loved Ones, family and friends, and even friends of friends! Enjoy everyday!