Rick, after almost ten years I'm still between anger and denial. The problem
is you keep getting worse.  Each loss presents  a new challenge, Ray----
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From: "Rick McGirr" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: PD/artistic ability/Scott


> And I'm surely dreading the day when I have to start turning down
> gigs because I can't play them.  Not prepared for that at all.  In
> terms of stages, I'm really still between anger and denial.  Good
> grief!
>
> Enjoy Fall!
> Rick McGirr
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 2:25 PM
> Subject: Re: PD/artistic ability/Scott
>
>
>> Scott, interesting idea.
>> Well we have Rick, our hip, humorous musician.  Some people thought
>> I played
>> a pretty mean piano, but I knew enough about music to know I didn't
>> know
>> anything. Have small hands and was too lazy to practice too.   Years
>> ago my
>> musician teacher of 3 months asked me to "sit in for him" at an
>> almost empty
>> piano bar.  I froze with fear. Does it bother your wife like it does
>> me that
>> she can't play any more?  PD is such an awful thief.
>>
>> Also could paint copies of great art, but nothing original. I wonder
>> who
>> else on our List has/had artistic abilities.
>> Ray
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott E. Antes" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 8:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc/Ray
>>
>>
>>> You're most welcome, Ray.  Interesting question, about the
>>> correlation.  A
>>> Ph.D. in England seems to think that a correlation exists between
>>> PD and
>>> artistic people (in particular, musicians).  I couldn't say, but my
>>> wife
>>> has
>>> had PD since 1995, and she is/was a pianist and organist.  Pretty
>>> smart,
>>> too.
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>>===== Original Message From "Parkinson's Information Exchange
>>>>Network"
>>> <[log in to unmask]> =====
>>>>Scott, your knowledge and posts are much appreciated by me.  Even
>>>>though
>>>>I'm
>>>>old I still like  to learn.  We seem to have lots of very smart,
>>>>well
>>>>educated people  on this list and I wonder if there is any
>>>>correlation
>>>>with
>>>>Parkinson's.
>>>>Ray, fellow Arizonan
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: "Scott E. Antes" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:33 PM
>>>>Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Apologies if someone has already answered this.  "Survival of the
>>>>> fittest," in
>>>>> the evolutionary sense, refers to one thing only, and that is the
>>>>> relative
>>>>> success of an organism to pass on its genes to future
>>>>> generations.  In
>>>>> other
>>>>> words, if you're an organism that produces offspring who produce
>>>>> offspring
>>>>> who
>>>>> produce offspring, etc., etc., you're a fit organism.  Some
>>>>> organisms
>>>>> are
>>>>> much
>>>>> more fit than others.  Bacteria, for example, are about the
>>>>> fittest
>>>>> organisms
>>>>> on the planet, having passed on their genetic material for some
>>>>> 3.8
>>>>> billion
>>>>> years.  Most insects also are very fit.  When confronted with
>>>>> climate
>>>>> and
>>>>> habitat change, small mammals proved to be more fit than gigantic
>>>>> dinosaurs,
>>>>> and so on.  Scott Antes
>>>>>
>>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>From: "Joe Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:29 PM
>>>>>>Subject: Scientific Method etc
>>>
>>> Scott E. Antes
>>> Department of Anthropology
>>> Northern Arizona University
>>> Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200
>>>
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