Hi janet: I love this answer, with 'bits and pieces' of
different Parkies included. Honored to have been among
them...On the lighter side, I was reading the post and
thinking, yes, this is an interesting comment, when I
realized with a jolt that it was written by ME. Whoa...talk
about short term memory loss.       Carole H.

--- janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At 21:39 1999/11/10 -0700, you wrote:
> >Janet, what's the Mars Mambo Express with Bern...sounds
> exciting.  I used to
> >love to dance...(one of the saddest things for me,
> losing my sense of
> >rythym--I can feel the beat, but I can't keep time to
> it.) but maybe by then
> >I'll be able to dance again?
>
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 02:56:19 -0400
> From: janet paterson
> Subj: NONPD: a pome
> --------------------------------------
>
>      estrangement
>
>      a strange meant
>      a making strange
>      a losing touch
>      a shutting out
>      a shutting in
>
>      shut the door
>      close it off
>      end it
>
>      put a stop to it
>      make it final
>      no more
>
>      all out of fear
>      intolerance
>      out of fear
>      jealousy
>      out of fear
>      anger
>      out of fear
>      fear
>      out of fear
>
>      fear of hurting
>      fear of losing
>      fear of giving
>      fear of taking
>      fear of needing
>      fear of wanting
>      fear of loving
>
>
>      1999/09/01
>
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:57:52 +0200
> From: Bernard Shaw
> Subj: Re: NONPD: a pome
> --------------------------------------
>
> Dear Janet,
>
> Your poem got to me, are you feeling depressive today
> or are you generally having a bad time.?
> I have a saying which goes like this.
> If your face wants to smile, Let it.
> If it doesn't, Make it.
> Easy for me to write but I honestly try to smile no
> matter how I
> feel. The world is for most Parkinson patients one big up
> and down,
> mainly downs when I am to be honest. I hope that I have
> made a
> mistake about your Poem and that you feel on top of the
> world.
>
> Bern.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 06:04:13 -0700
> From: Carole Hercun
> Subj: Re: NONPD: a pome
> --------------------------------------
>
> Very nice. A bit on the dark side. But, as I am
> learning, that's part of life, isn't it?
>
> Carole
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 09:59:56 -0400
> From: janet paterson
> Subj: Re: NONPD: a pome
> --------------------------------------
>
> hi all
>
> At 10:57 1999/09/03 +0200, bern wrote:
> >Your poem got to me, are you feeling depressive today
> >or are you generally having a bad time.?...
>
> neither!
>
> that 'pome' was some musing on thoughts and observations
> which had been percolating in my head for awhile
>
> i will take your reaction
> as one of the nicest compliments about my writing
> that i've ever had!
>
> >I have a saying which goes like this.
> >If your face wants to smile, Let it. If it doesn't, Make
> it...
>
> sort of like an old song about whistling
> "whenever i feel afraid...."
>
> >Easy for me to write but I honestly try to smile
> >no matter how I feel. The world is for most Parkinson
> >patients one big up and down, mainly downs when I am
> >to be honest...
>
> i think it's important that we 'allow' ourselves
> to feel lousy when we feel lousy
>
> it was also important to me to realize
> that i could actively make a conscious choice in how i
> looked at
> ... everything!
>
> >I hope that I have made a mistake about your Poem
> >and that you feel on top of the world. Bern.
> >http://members.teleweb.at/bernard.shaw/poetry.html
>
> i don't know if i would call it a 'mistake'
> if my words grabbed your heart and did a little twisting
> there
>
> maybe it's a case of my words having the 'power' to grab
> maybe it's a case of your heart being open and
> 'twistable'
>
> janet
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:01:34 -0400
> From: janet paterson
> Subj: Re: NONPD: a pome
> --------------------------------------
>
> At 06:04 1999/09/03 -0700, carole wrote:
> >Very nice. A bit on the dark side. But, as I am
> >learning, that's part of life, isn't it?
>
> thank you, carole
> and,
> yes it is,
> just as surely as day follows night
>
> janet
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:23:53 +0200
> From: Bernard Shaw
> Subj: Re: NONPD: a pome
> --------------------------------------
>
> Janet
>
> I am so pleased that you are alright. Your poem did touch
> me
> but then nowadays so much touches me that I did not
> consciously
> see before Parkinon's. A piece of music .a child that is
> in
> distress, a poverty stricken person anywhere in the
> world. My
> heart goes out to them. Is it possibly all this Sinamet.?
> Does
> it cause our brains to react differently or is it Old Age
> creeping
> up.?
> I tell everone that I meet,  I will live to be a hundred,
> Parkinson or no Parkinson. I want to see the civilisation
> jump in
> the next thirty years. Perhaps I too will be able to go
> to Mars or
> even the Moon. I have alwayss been an optimist so perhaps
> I will
> reach the 100 mark.
>
> Bern
>
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:30:30 -0700
> From: Carole Hercun
> Subj: Re: NONPD: a pome
>
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