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At 02:14 2000/07/24 -0500, ray wrote: >we need you >sharp and succinct you are thank you for those kind words sir >i have to say something >we all have our ups and downs >... >i still feel fortunate >--for other things >... >but, one can't get too attatched to those either >because it doesn't matter in the end >none of us will escape that >even if there is a cure tomorrow >... >birth. old age. sickness and death >... >no escape from our physical bodies no but we are not limited to them are we? didn't buddha have something to say about this? >janet knows >PD is not wonderful >CD is not wonderful >life is wonderful >and it takes effort to see that >the life is yours >make the most of it >despite parkinsons yep i needed a good smack or two dozen upside the head before i 'got it' >"never complain never explain" >Wendell Castle wrote this on a table top >with little black plastic dots spaced out across the surface >had to get down low and >look at it from a certain angle >to see it >hard >most don't get it >art isn't always easy to see >how much harder >to see others' hope and joy >and pain and suffering >most of us >don't get it i knew the quote and liked it but i didn't know the story about it thank you! >spirit so weak >miserable in the rain > >spirit so strong >singing in the rain > >. . . same rain . . . yes >each of us has to find that place in ourselves >then it will happen >here reminds me of my own sage saying about living in bermuda 'paradise is where you make it, not a place to go' >>Even Scott Peck's now famous saying about life being difficult means >>different things to different people. >yes >are we looking at an example now? yep it meant different things to me each time i read the book 'the road less traveled' each time i read it, i marked meaningful passages with a highlighter using a different colour for each reading my book is now quite colourful and almost completely highlighted! >youthful spirit attitude > nice day for a jog >old spirit attitude > labors upward under a heavy pack yes >i may have a parkinsonian body >but, i hope my attitude isn't parkinsonian i venture to suggest that the 'parkinsonian' attitude is not the source of the negativity i determine to live with hope, courage and confidence. because why? >...on the edge of the prairie abyss .................... >... >strolling along too close to the edge >but the view is breath taking 'too' close? sez who? janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: "[log in to unmask]" smail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada