Paul's Corner

Will gladly spread the word. Thank you for being committed to the cause and not forgetting those who have succumbed to the illness and those who are just made aware of their illness. You really show your committment those most in need, long after the media buzz has died down. But then as PCs this is not a surprise to us. May you continue to be a beacon for those who are suffering and wish you and your family the best.

I wish everyone involved, but especially Paul, best of luck and great success with the fund raising!

Paul, it's great to see the fund raising continue and will get the word out.

Bravo, Paul!

Thank you for your effort in spreading this support Paul. With you in ANYONE's corner, how can they go wrong?

I was able to find the address to send a check or money to the Great Walk to Beijing website. I'll be sending a check in the mail next week. I'm not sure if it will count as a sponsership for Paul but I'm sure he'll be ok with it.

all my best to everyone,

Julie

ps: went to Waxy's last night met the founder of Crocs Shoes.

Are Crocs Australian shoes? For Paul I can imagine the weather getting cold down south as we are about to start summer here. I agree we should be able to send contributions as cash or check as viewers don't necessarily want to use a charge card. Paul, can the Great Walk people do this?

This link shows Paul fishing:

http://www.whitsundaytourism.com/rtn2/index.cfm?C7139E94-0779-47FF-30F1-B2866CFA2E46

Thanks Julie - if you include a note with the cheque saying you want it to go to sponsoring me they should add it to my tally - hopefully! Many Thanks for your support.

Thanks to you Liz for posting that link. I didnt know it existed!! The pics are from the last episode of Mercurio's Menu which was shot in Townsville in Queesland at the end of April.

Paul it's been great for the PCs as you are so busy, but it's hard to keep up with what's new on you. I'll send a bunch of found articles to Cat so us PCs can keep up with you. During this in between time, I imagine you are resting, but then when you are resting and the mind is quiet, you probably are busy creating...

Hi Folks,

I sent my donation out this morning to Australia. The address to send donations to is a little difficult to find on the site so I'll post it here,

Great Walk to Beijing
Olivia Newton John Cancer Center
Locked Bag 25
Heidelberg, Victoria 3085
AUSTRALIA

I included a note stating that I wanted the sponsorship to go to Mr. Paul Mercurio (ok I didn't actually write "Mr." so no worries for any ambarassing use of titles).

Liz the man who founded Crocs is actually an American who lives on a boat here in Fort Lauderdale when he's not traveling somewhere in the world. He's actually an old friend of my neighbor who lives next door and for the PC oldbes you can guess as to which neighbor. Believe me I was suprised to.

good luck with the fundraising Paul!

Julie

Liz, I was thinking yesterday that it must be getting chilly down under (as Chicago finally (!) warms up and joins the rest of the Midwest going towards summer!). Chicago weather certainly beats to its own drummer thanks to Lake Michigan.

And thanks, Liz, for that link. I was thinking of the song, "Nice Work if You Can Get It!"

Paul, just thinking from the standpoint that you get to travel, check out local happenings and food, and get some cooking in yourself. It's a win for all of you involved.

I hope this leads to more series for you, more recipes to create--pretty cool!

Julie, I'm glad you posted the mailing address. I tried to get back on the site to make another donation and it locked me out twice saying I didn't have authorization--probably servers out of sync or maybe firewalls . . . will try again.

Greetings to Paul and Everyone!
I just made a small contribution. Wish I could do more, but I'm in debt after my failed city council campaign and business has been slow.

Thank you for fighting cancer Paul. And thanks to others here who have supported Paul in this cause. It's great to see so many wonderful people around the globe working to put an end to this scourge. This past weekend, I participated in our local Relay for Life (American Cancer Society). Then I worked a booth for the Optimist Club at The Hope Program for Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles. It was a beautiful weekend and four years out from my cancer treatment, I have much for which to be grateful.

Best wishes to you!!!

Hello to the PCs! Well wishes to Diane for you to continue to get well. Thanks for the Crocs info, Julie. To Paul, which of your Mercurio's Menu experiences were the most unique and memorabble? Did you learn how to fish for the first time in Queensland? Were you actually in a nude beach and was this on Austalian TV? Did you do fly casting as it looks like in the picture? Are you on to a new beer, a new brew that you are making or have found in your travels? What kind of beer goes with barra? An you are right about the Kriek Lambic--it is very good with the cherries. Sorry for the many questions but just interested in your show and travels. And when Olivia Newton John reached the end of the walk, she was saying :Love is in the air, did you being there inspire her to say this? Thanks.

Hello to the PCs! Well wishes to Diane for you to continue to get well. Thanks for the Crocs info, Julie. To Paul, which of your Mercurio's Menu experiences were the most unique and memorabble? Did you learn how to fish for the first time in Queensland? Were you actually in a nude beach and was this on Austalian TV? Did you do fly casting as it looks like in the picture? Are you on to a new beer, a new brew that you are making or have found in your travels? What kind of beer goes with barra? An you are right about the Kriek Lambic--it is very good with the cherries. Sorry for the many questions but just interested in your show and travels. And when Olivia Newton John reached the end of the walk, she was saying :Love is in the air, did you being there inspire her to say this? Thanks.

Diane--welcome aboard! May you have a healthy and happy (and long!) life!

Liz, your questions recall a sketch from many years ago with Rosalind Russell when she interviews a bunch of South American sailors in the musical number "Conga"--she asks question after question (like how do you like our country, what do you think of our President, etc.) and every lyric would end with another "what do you think of our" and the sailors yelled "Conga!" and they dance her feet off and the whole dock forms a line, then it turns into a riot--I'm sure Grandma Mil would recall this from "Wonderful Town".

To the above I say Conga! Sounds like the interviewer from hell! Too much coffee this am. The answer is Conga!

Sorry for too many questions. Conga! would be the appropriate answer!!! :)

Maybe for the above; Paul can write a book about his travels, or his discovery of beer in the diff places in the continent. I am sure a lot of viewers want to know more about his travels--after all he did a sweep of what's great in the entire continent--quite a feat in just a few wks. It would be interesting to hear what he says in the book or journal, plus the recipes would be great, but hard to get the barra fish if you need it for the recipe.

Hello to all the PCs. Just reviewed the June 05, 06 and 07 blogs and Paul and the PCs had very interesting discussions about the meaning of life and also lots of silliness and LOL moments. Nothing much to add. Just thankful for all the wonderful PCs at this site.

Hello to all the PCs. Just reviewed the June 05, 06 and 07 blogs and Paul and the PCs had very interesting discussions about the meaning of life and also lots of silliness and LOL moments. Nothing much to add. Just thankful for all the wonderful PCs at this site.

Just spend the afternoon and evening with one of my best friends & my 'oldest' friend in the sense that I have no memory of when we haven't been friends. We've been friends since we both were about 1 year old. It was a moving afternoon for me. She recently lost her husband quite suddenly and how she handles life and the challenges it threw her is AMAZING!!! Taking care of her 2 young kids, being the sole provider for the family, paying off the house they had just built and surviving emotionally in it all, with a hyperactive son who is now testing the boundaries as the 'only man in the house.' She is firm but so gentle, it was very touching!!! She didn't deserve that devastating loss at such a young age, but she has so much dignity and graciousness towards life, maybe because of it all. I am very moved by what I experienced this afternoon.

Hi Paul and hi staff of the pc! I just donate US$ 50 for the campaign of Paul. I hope that this contribution will help a lot. Health for all.

Diane, continued success against that which cannot rob you of life and living it!

Evelyn, thanks so much for sharing your wonderful experience with us regarding your old friend and her children. I can relate. I truly am touched by the strength that I see in people that continues to catch me so off guard sometimes! I see it often, yet it never ceases to amaze me. Just this week my 91 year old mother set yet another example of what it means to have faith in things turning out for the best. I really must learn that sometimes we MUST be in control of our own outcomes!! We just don't know it.

It's been an absolutely enlightening week!
Paul, I too donated to your walk on the first round and will try to donate again. I hope for great success for this wonderful effort to find a cure for such a ridiculous illness! We've GOT to find a better way to deal with Cancer!!

Have a great weekend everyone and remember how powerful we truly are!!

Grandma Millie, I hope you and the family are doing ok in adjusting to all the recent events. Love you!

"Have a great weekend everyone and remember how powerful we truly are!!"

Beautifully said, MaryS!

Evelyn, thanks for sharing your afternoon with us.

Liz, I agree that PC is a great place to experience. From Paul's own entries that range from profound and moving, to a quick smile, and everyone's personal experience and humor. I always look forward to everyone's posts.

My nephew graduated from High School this week and we're having a party tomorrow afternoon. We found out from our cousins that one of my aunts (mother's side) has taken ill--heart problems, which can be bad in our family. So, sending prayers her way.

Good weekend, everyone! :)

Yes, I agree with Evelyn that it is amazing how
people who are facing extreme challenges as mentioned in the responses here carry on in spite of it all...as my mother used to say, "What else can one do?"

It is true grit, and the experiences of MaryS, Evelyn, Diane, and Melody, and our daughter, Leah,
bear that out.

Leah said recently, "I don't want to hear platitudes like "one day at a time." Her days have gotten better; she went back to work last
Monday, she drives the car to work, she walks in
the house without a cane, but the numbness in her feet is still there, and not any of her doctors can predict when that will cease. She is now on drug therapy. The drugs are used to stop the growth of new lesions..we hope she will go into remission, but it's too early to tell.

Tara wrote me that when she comes to the states in
September, she wants to visit Leah in her home, for after the premiere here in Florida, Tara and
her daughter will be going to NYC to visit her brother and family.

Leah lives in New Jersey, just an hour from NYC. Tara loved interviewing the twins for MBF. We were
very touched by her wish to visit Leah.

Tara is hosting the first screening of MBF in Sydney for the officials of SBS Network, and people from the Film Finace Corporation that gave
her the funding, and the people that helped put it all together, and gave her such moral support.

This will be on June 15, and wouldn't Ellie and I love to be 2 flies on the wall..this is the first time MBF is to be shown in its entirety in a movie
theatre.

Shalom and love,

Grandma Mil

The beautiful racer bike that she bought some time
ago to ride in marathons for charity now has been turned into an exercise bike in her bedroom.

Ellie now tells her his favorite platitude: "I will not be beaten!'

Thank you so much Diane, Maria and MaryS for making a contribution - small or large it all makes a diference.

As always it is great to hear from you Diane and I thank you for popping in every now and then. I often wonder how all the 'oldies' are doing - I really should say founding PC'ers :) you of course, Timbo, Courtney, Peter of the purle suit and of course Millie and Evelyn....there are more and I think of them all and hope that their lifes path is going well.

Evelyn it is a good reminder that it is not so much what happens to us but how we live through it that is the challenge and the real test of ones self. There are things that I do not wish to contemplate as I fear that their is no way I could survive , cope nor live through them and yet I know I would because one must honour life and all of its gifts and grievances.

I am glad to hear Leah is doing just that.