Thank you, Joni, for your article about your experience with Hospice for your husband, Tom. We all will have to face important and difficult decisions when the time comes, and your sharing was very informative and helpful. We had invaluable Hospice assistance some years ago when we were caretakers for my husband’s parents. We highly recommend their services and support.
Thank you Joni for your helpful explanation of the process you and Tom went through prior to his death. Here at RVM we can all learn from one another and it helps others make better choices when faced with a similar situation when we know what was helpful to someone else. You and Tom took advantage of the options available, and it sounds like many caring professionals were a part of your decisions. I send you my love and gratitude for this generous report.
Joni, thank you for a poignant and essential article. I suspect it wasn’t easy for you to write it, and relive those moments, but it is a tremendous source of information for the rest of us. Nobody can predict the future, but we can prepare for what it may bring to us.
Doyne, what marvelous story of your life. You have accomplished so much. We often did go to the Foothill College for their performances and enjoyed so much. Sophia
I love theater, music, and all things creative. What an interesting story about Doyne. And I grew up in Los Altos! I left home about the time Foothill opened. With more time to venture out, my mother became an active art student there.
Eleanor, what a precious story. Her name Skoshi, is a perfect name as it means “little” or small in Japanese. Siamese are my fav breed, then Persians. I am now feeding 5 ferals, three of them – all fixed – sleep indoors during these cold winter months.
Aloha,
Salome
Thanks for sharing your frank introduction to painting. You tell it like it is…and I admire that about you. Is that a self-portrait of you in the background of your photo? As your hands and fingers “deteroriate” perhaps you will be surprised as to whatever you do paint. Wouldn’t that be interesting?
Aloha,
Salome
Nice Piece … thank you. We came to RVM in 2004 …18years ago. Many of the more recent residents are not aware of Anita’s work so this will be a good introduction to anita.
Thank you for this initiative.
Russy
Anne, thanks for the article, and for all you do for the RVM Library. Your review of Daniel Mason is welcome since I am often on the lookout for offbeat fiction.
-Sophia
Thank you Betsy, for sharing your experience in the Peace Corps. It must have made an impression on you through your life.
Tom’s brother after he retired spend two years in Peace Corps.
Sophia
Carolyn and David, what rich life experience you both have had, to do this mid life…that is daring. Love reading about it. Thank you for sharing. Sophia
Dave and Carolyn,
I am very happy knowing you had a rewarding experience in Ecuador and able to travel to visit my country, Bolivia, and Peru and Chile. Traveling by bus probably was something very different for you than here. You were very brave doing that. Kudos to you!
Dave and Carolyn,
I am very happy knowing you had a rewarding experience in Ecuador and able to travel to visit my country, Bolivia, Peru and Chile. Traveling by bus probably was something very different for you than here. You were very brave doing that. Kudos to you!
And, yes, we Rummikub players definitely want our game to be included in the 2024 offerings, especially as they are being held in Paris. Oui? And what about including line dancing as a senior sport? Physical and mental sporting, you know!
Thanks, as always for the energetic journalism, Joni. I had no idea the Russy and Anita were involved so early in the history of PC; veritable Founding Mothers and Fathers they were!
I want to commend Anne Newins for her well-written, informative article on my favorite place on the whole campus–the Manor library. I am one of the lucky volunteers who gets to spend time every week amongst the huge collection of books from the classics and mysteries to contemporary non-fiction. Anne reminds us of the dedicated volunteers who work hard behind the scenes to maintain the library. All of us who use the library greatly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
And it is no coincidence that the Memory Support Center is located just above the intersection of Malama Way and Lake Village Drive and Lake Village Drive and Lake Village Drive.
This entire topic of Emergency Preparedness is a wonderful example of neighbors helping neighbors. Kudos to Bob and the other organizers. As a side benefit, this encourages interaction with neighbors who may be somewhat isolated.
Reina is a wonderful jewelry maker her pieces take hours to produce but she works on and on and does not care how long it takes the result, works of art.
When I was in Colombia with Reina, she proudly showed me many examples of indigenous art. Her knowledge of her country’s history, coupled with her own exquisite taste in art, make her a great ambassador.
Thank you, Reina, for sharing all this beauty!
Reina is an amazing, seamstress, quilt, jewelry, art collector, craft making anything, photographer, decorator, diverse art lover but mostly, the best friend in the wirld eith the biggest heart for our whole world. Beautiful displays!
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