Maggie........ what a nice msg to read so early in the morning.....it just
made my day...and I loved the following.....": so encouragement to all you
new members out
there grab this demon PD by the tail abnd make him occasionally take a
back seat!!!!!!!!!!!(We know he will always be there so try the cold
shoulder occasionally)............thanks for a nice wake up call.......
Have a great day....Joan Hartman
----- Original Message -----
From: david clark and margaret clark <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 5:56 AM
Subject: re poetry


> Hi
> After twelve years of dealing with our uninvited guest PD having read
> everything I could find and watched and listened about other peoples
> rapid or slow progress of this so unpredictable disorder I find as
> in"normal" walks of life we gather into certain groupings. There  are
> those that just sit and winge and never seem to get themselves out of
> dismal depression if only they can realise that there is so much out
> there to be done for others who are far worse than yourself .then there
> are the do gooders who go to the earthend to try and encourage and help
> others when probably needing help themselves and then there are the
> sitters on the back line watching it all criticising  every suggestion
> made about our plight,complaining that nothing works for them.
> I think most of us have been through these various stages and I
> sincerely beleive that part of therapy is to give and not always take.
> We all have something that someone else could benefit from  and this is
> leading up to poetry . I found just writing down (the operative word I
> mean pattering away on the pc. )as  no longer can write for length of
> time. your feelings at that time and later going back to read them .we
> seem to get an increase in our sensitivity with PD dont we? We can cry
> we have to learn to lEARN TO LAUGH AT OURSELVES what complex people we
> have become Cinderella when hastening back to home before "off" time
> descends. Quasemodo from when we first struggle and shuffle around
> crumpled and bent in the morning before the help of the blue pink and
> white miracle makers are taken. Rip Van Winkle when sitting at the
> dinner table and in a flash your face is in your plate My the roles I
> could play!if energy would allow!!!!!!and all in one day.I am writing
> these all in to pieces of poetry finding it great therapy have started a
> new support group now41 mmembers strong and hope that I can pass on this
> feeling of being someoneand not just another victim of our uninvited
> guest. I am even trying to paint once again  after many years of having
> to give up my most cherished decorative painting. The canvas are rough
> but a style is forming "ME": so encouragement to all you new members out
> there grab this demon PD by the tail abnd make him occasionally take a
> back seat!!!!!!!!!!!(We know he will always be there so try the cold
> shoulder occasioally)
> love hope and faith for a cure Magaret(Maggie)Clark    48/60
>