I love my community. They are so loving, thoughtful and supportive. I miss hugging you all as if your Mom looking after your needs. But I know #CoronaVirus just made you all more caring, more artistic, more loving and more thoughtful. Thank you for your living, vibrant and loving hearts. There are too many to thank: the facebook group Support LA’s Filipino Small Businesses, the restaurants who delivered to us even at a far distance like Titas of Manila Filipino Kitchen, Lem Balagot. And how the superior quality of Metro Cafe, Republique were sustained and upheld. Thank you Island Pacific Seafood Market and Giselle Tongi Walters for making groceries, online now. Hooray for your sacrifice and creativity!

Thank you Asian Journal for boosting our morale with stories featuring folks with generosity of hope and spirit and continuing your mission of being our trusted community media voice.

Thank you to the musicians who kept singing, but not just singing, hoping and sharing their excellent music to boost us living in seclusion: Ryan Cayabyab, Lea Salonga, UST Alumni Singers, Pinoy Priests, Pete Avendano, Nicole David Yalong, Josh Nelson, Antoine Reynaldo Diel, Michael Paulo and Mon David.

Thank you to the morale boosting actions of the theater artists and community exchanging ready made adobo and house of pies strawberry pie. They do it at a distance but still show us the #CoronaVirus has not secluded our warm hearts from one another.Thank you Ted Benito for daily doses of laughters from your memes and clever jokes, 99.9% of the time. It shows you care to make us laugh and hope for another day.

Thank you to Max’s and Lucy’s ensaymadas for their first shipment to us, boosting our palates that “All Shall Be Well,” Thea Fernandez Martinez for sustained shipments of Yoli’s alkalete and pur and of course, Ninong’s Pastries and Cafe for developing during this pandemic, Ube Pancake Mix, for breakfast.

Thank you for our fashion designers turned masks makers like Carl Andrada, Oliver Tolentino, Alexis Bong Monsanto and Kenneth Barlis.

Thank you to the sustained efforts of our health frontliners and peace officers who continue to keep us healthy and safe. 34 Californians went to NY and distanced themselves from families so they can save lives.

Thank you to the credible, data-sharing and facts only media like Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, The Rachel Maddow Show, the New Yorker Magazine.

Thank you Facebook and Instagram for being digital forces for the common good and your Q and As, Marc Zuckerberg and your wife, Patricia.

Thank you for boosting my own spirit, with your sustained digital work Hydee Ursolino and sustained academic work Karen Buenavista Hanna in telling our Filipino and Filipino American stories.

Thank you to our diligent, conscientious public officials who continue to give us the truth but also negotiate with banks on forbearance of student loans for 90 days, no penalties for unpaid mortgage, for knowing how to control down the death rates, valuing our lives as their own. I am truly grateful for Mayor Eric Garcetti, Gavin Newsom, Rob Bonta, even NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Ferrer of LA County Health, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong for their truthfulness in conveying what they know.

Thank you to our Holy Father Pope Francis, Fr. James Martin, Bishop Marc Trudeau, Bishop Barron, Fr. Dan Leary, Fr. Rolly Clarin, Fr. Rodel G.Balagtas, Fr. John Cordero, Fr. Joachim Ablanida, for sustaining us with deeper insights of the Gospel but also that “All Shall Be Well.”

(Left) My 80 year old neighbor, Larry’s front lawn. His lawn mirrors the beauty of his sweet and thoughtful heart. He was so thoughtful and started the circle of kindness in our neighborhood (Right) Orange pod in our sago palm, which I just noticed. It has been here for over 35 years.

Thank you to my favorite warmhearted 80 yo neighbors, my own loving family I am proud to be part of: my beautiful daughter, my handsome son, my loving granddaughter with upbeat essence of joy who collectively sustain us with groceries, homemade bread, prepared dinners, indoor plants and my foreever love, my dear husband who continues to bake, grow crops, fix stuff, even write OP-eds and my favorite surprise hugs.We all can do more. Like the efforts of our small business leader Johneric Concordia who organized his business to serve food to hospitals, even LASA-LA and RiceBar for their sustained cooking to feed frontliners as well as Romeo Chocolates in Long Beach for reaching out to 150 families with donated 150 bags of groceries from Island Pacific Seafood Supermarket, as they all continue to keep the lights on in their shops.

My favorite beautiful folks in the world, inside and out.

Keeping lights on in her shop is also the worry of Lee Mikuriya, but instead, she organizes her customers to buy e-gift certificates and she had a small goal but her customers rallied with their $20, $100, and she transmitted those to buy sacks of rice to sustain several barangays. We all can transform our worries to feeding others. Temptation of worry to Grace of Feeding Others.

Just like Antonio Whiteley who braved the strong rains to deliver extra candles to his client and commissioned ones just because his clients are family to him, even if his acupuncture clinic is closed.

We all can see what our neighborhood Catholic schools need now, Immaculate Heart of Mary School Los Angeles and perhaps consider contributing to them?

Let our legacies, collectively not be of worrying, but nurturing a bright future for our children just like these giving and generous folks. Not worrying about our businesses when they might open, but retooling and rebooting them now in service of the greater humanity. #weareonehumanity

And most of all Crash Landing On You – 2019 – 2020 Korean Drama, now with 1.75 billion views on TVN – some have watched it 7 times, I did 3 times and discovered affinity to Koreanovelas and Asian television series.

Just a thought if 1.75 billion watched a great 16 episode series that made us care and become even more warm hearts, perhaps, we all can pray together to find a validated cure and vaccine that will save our lives from #CoronaViruses of all kinds and support the scientists, virologists, epidemiologists, doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists we now have that prolong our lives?

Thank you Lord, God, Holy Spirit, Mama Mary, for giving the opportunities to see what collective prayers can do for us, witnessing miracles of recoveries for a senior nurse in London and a young physician in the Philippines, suffering from #CoronaVirus. We are certain collective prayers are answered, from sincere places of intimate trust and loving hearts. Thank you so much, God Almighty for a reset of humanity towards the common good, truthfulness, love and care for Mother Nature and humanity.

Thank you to our gardeners, cleaning ladies, garbage workers, UPS and FedEx truck drivers, independent delivery folks who keep us sustained, fed and nourished with basic life essentials, as one people.

He taught me unconditional love and generosity of Spirit, even as he was a teenage orphan whose guerrilla parents were assassinated by the Japanese imperial soldiers. He taught me an enduring legacy as a gardener of souls and crops, to do it with loving care. I miss him so much and his stories.

Eleazar is and was Christmas

Fr. Tony Astudillo in his eulogy for him. 20 years ago, April 24, 2000, my father died

I love you all and may our current presence on earth leave it better than we found it: healthier, cleaner, less pollution, less crude, less hateful and more alive, caring and love for one another. –Prosy Delacruz, April 24, 2020 on the 20th death anniversary year of my most generous father, Eleazar, who showed me to live is to love generously, over the top for my mom, his family and his grandchildren. I learned so much from him, including his bad temper, lol