Beef Pot Pie, Life-Long Chums, and Sparkles

BEEF POT PIE
The Bruns House, lovingly operated by Hospice of the East Bay, has done WONDERS for Dad in three short days.  He is so much calmer, brighter, and more awake.  He has taken great pleasure in their menu... enjoying especially beef pot pie, hot cocoa, and warm peach pie!  You should see his face when the aromas waft into his room!  Pure joy!

LIFE-LONG CHUMS
The doctors say Dad's sudden surge of energy and lucidity are fairly common.  They describe it as a final "rally"; Dad's body & mind are serving him well in these final days.  Many of you have been able to savor a hearty phone conversation with Dad or a personal visit full of laughter & ribbing about your years with him on the golf course, on the softball field, or at the office.  These times with YOU, his life-long chums, are so precious to observe. I want you to truly KNOW THAT.

SPARKLES
You all know Dad well enough to understand he is a scientist at heart.  A pioneer computer programmer from the late 1950s.  A linear, analytic thinker.  We were just agog the other day when Dad said to us, with eyes closed.  I had a dream.  It was my Dad, calling for me.  Daddy was calling for me, just a little ways away.  But... between us were these sparkles (and here he used his hands and fingers to convey a curtain of twinkling sparkles, falling top-to-bottom).  I walked to the sparkles and then through them (at this moment he used his hands like he was parting a curtain, a veil).  And then I was there. 
I was here, and then I there. 
It was as easy as that. 
And over there...  IT'S JUST LIKE HERE.

So, there you have it. 
Richard's heaven.
Something quite remarkable to think about, huh?