Them's the breaks.  I'm alright.  Can't lay down and take it.  Gotta
fight.  Gotta keep going.  Gotta have faith.  We'll win out.
Something good'll happen.  You wait n see.  OK?

Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: PD/artistic ability/All/Rick


> Rick, here I was bemoaning the loss of a hobby, not a profession.
> Well, I
> can't teach any more either, but it really brings home to me the
> outrage of
> the wait for help from Singapore or South  Korea.
>
> I "dance" on the treadmill but it is getting kind of pitiful.  I was
> 60 when
> I got PD, you are way too young to have it.  It just breaks my
> heart.
>
> ((((Rick)))) from Ray
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McGirr" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:10 AM
> Subject: Re: PD/artistic ability/All
>
>>I think if I was a major league ball player, I wouldn't be one of
>>the
>> noble greats who leave the game before they have to.  I would play
>> until I couldn't make a team, just for the love of the game.  What
>> do
>> you mean?  No, the $3 million a year has nothing to do with it!
>>
>> Actually, Scott, the thing that's getting me down a bit right now
>> is
>> the fact that I have so many commitments, most having to do with
>> bringing in a few bucks, that I can't work on my playing the way I
>> need to.  I can still get through a rock or blues gig fine.  Most
>> of
>> that stuff is 'flash and trash', as my college prof used to say.
>> 'But
>> I like it, like it, yes I do!'  I feel like I still have some years
>> left before I can't fake it anymore.  I find that the individual
>> identity of each finger is what's diminishing, ever so slowly.  But
>> I
>> still have the 'groove', and if you have that, you can rock til
>> you're
>> blue in the mouth.
>>
>> But actually, there's a bigger fear than playing wrong notes in
>> public
>> (like that's never happened before).  I think about being a
>> spectacle
>> off stage.  If I had to hang around numerous venues between sets
>> and
>> waddle and wobble and wiggle, which I do a little bit now, it would
>> be
>> hard for people and me to feel comfortable with it.  (Hey!  This
>> could
>> be a way to get people to move my gear for me!)  This would lead to
>> me
>> explaining myself and PD quite a bit, which wouldn't be the worst
>> thing politically, but the bar owner might look a bit perturbed
>> (like
>> that's never happened before).  Once it gets back to the booking
>> agent, then you have a problem, 'cause word, like rot, would spread
>> around town fast, and then the phone stops ringing and you're done.
>>
>> I have a bunch of piano students, and pretty soon I'm going to have
>> to
>> tell them why my arm shakes during lessons.  I'll have to start
>> sitting behind them while they play, instead of beside them.
>>
>> I short, I may be going down, but I'm going to take as many of them
>> with me as I can.  And afterwards, my son can entertain me.  We
>> have
>> similar, broad tastes, (Hey, get your mind out of the gutter!) and
>> he's recently done his first few decent-paying gigs with a band.  I
>> am
>> blessed with a wonderful wife and family, so I'm sure I'll be fine,
>> whatever happens to me professionally.
>>
>> I also think of my mom, a painter, who had her abilities taken away
>> by
>> a stroke a few years back.  She's in a home now, and they've been
>> trying to encourage her to try some sketching with her left
>> (non-dominant) hand, and she's been doing a bit.  Such a struggle
>> for
>> her.  I got it great in comparison.
>>
>> Enjoy Fall!
>> Rick McGirr
>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott E. Antes" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 1:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: PD/artistic ability/All
>>
>>
>>> Hi Ray and Rick and All.
>>>
>>> Out of town over the weekend, and saw this message first.  I, too,
>>> would like
>>> to know if more of our list members are musical/artistic--or if
>>> anyone knows
>>> of PD people who are artistic.  Laureen (my wife) doesn't really
>>> talk about
>>> not playing piano/organ any more.  It's only been few months since
>>> she
>>> stopped--and she stopped when she felt (not anyone else)her
>>> abilites
>>> were
>>> going downhill.
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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>>>>Network"
>>> <[log in to unmask]> =====
>>>>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
>>>
>>> Scott E. Antes
>>> Department of Anthropology
>>> Northern Arizona University
>>> Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200
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