It has been so exciting for me to put this website together. 

I do hope you have been all over the site and looked at the amazing organisations I have been associated with and the truly wonderful people I have met and been lucky enough to build a connection.  

To commence a newsletter is a little daunting.  While my first book was about surviving cancer, my second book is about the thoughts of happy children so I don't want to dwell on a particular aspect of life, especially one that is as challenging as surviving cancer.   

At the moment with the financial crisis, we live in a world where bad news dominates.  Whatever the way you try to think, it can be harder to be positive when it seems as the globe is sliding into poverty and the environmnet is in crisis.  Yet amazing things really happen every day. 

On a day which had been full of 'bad news' according to the media, I was walking to the supermarket and reflecting on what to put in this newsletter,  when I saw an amazing sight.   I saw a man in a motorized wheel chair but that wasnn't what was amazing.  With her two hands on his shoulders, a woman on a, I guess you would call it a manual wheel chair was clinging on a for a ride. They were going up a fairly steep incline and the 'hitch' the woman was getting was saving her a lot of effort. 

How many of us would assume that a man in a wheel chair was less than capable of helping someone else?  And yet out of everyone rushing to the supermarket that afternoon with good intentions of contributing to the community,  he probably provided the most help of all. 

Whether we are thrust into a life and death situation of surviving cancer or even just dealing with the many challenges of parenthood, help comes from the most unexpected places and often from the people you least expect to be there for you.

Bear with me as we iron out any kinks in the website and fine tune what we are presenting to you. 

I can't wait to hear your stories and to release my next book.  It will be geat to hear your thoughts.

Wishing you health and happiness, always.  

Elizabeth Gould