Hi Joan,
Ah... New York in September..... http://www.parkinsonwalk.org/frames/walk/
The seventh annual Unity Walk is Sep. 24th 2000 in Central Park
Ya know they have 30 day Amtrak / Via packages....
North American Rail Pass...kooool - 30 Day Pass...
http://www.amtrak.com/promotions/passintro.html
http://www.amtrak.com/promotions/images/map3.jpg
Prices: U.S. Dollars
**Peak --$656
*Off Peak --$459
We could all meet in the big apple and buy autographed copies...
We talk the talk ..... Who can walk the walk?
What a dream that would be........ (Lisa... catch a boat to Miami)
We can make a difference and Joan... You do! ......... murray
On 24 Jul 2000, at 4:55, Joan and Stan Snyder wrote:
> Greg & Janet, Juanita & Murray: This in no way reflects on the way you
> personally react to your own battle w/ PD...this is mine alone-just as
> you must bear your own reactions to this disease. It has always been my
> contention that, no matter how many support & surround you with love, PD
> is a lonely disease-so is life for that matter, because when it comes
> right down to it-we're all in this journey alone-unless we decide to
> take spiritual help...which I will not get into here. All I can tell you
> is this: since my dxes 10 yrs ago at the age of 39 and despite 2
> pallidotomies (1 wildly successful, the other nearly killing me-I had to
> relearn to talk, eat, etc.), I have become, either because of or in
> spite of the PD, a much better person. I have had the opportunity to
> co-author & co-edit a soon-to-be-published book: "Voices From The
> Parking Lot-Parkinson's Perspectives," and I am now planning to visit
> NYC with my husband (neither of us has ever been there). While there, we
> will attend a reception featuring the artwork of Jane Scott & Marc Esser
> & "Voices" with my friend Dennis from Australia at the National Arts
> Club in Gramercy Park. Also, after doing promotion & publicity for the
> BOOK, we will be taking orders for the book during the National Unity
> Walk and afterwards we will be guests at reception at a Manhattan
> restaurant to "Meet The Authors." This would not all be possible without
> my participation in this list. I would have never met the very talented
> Dennis Greene, the wonderfully generous and "get-things-done" Margaret
> Tuchman nor the ever indomitable Don McKinley-to whom the book is
> dedicated, nor a vast majority of the talented authors, whose work
> graces our BOOK. For myself, and only myself, I am grateful for the door
> that was slammed shut in my face-forcing me to find other windows of
> opportunity.
>
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> Joan E. Snyder 48/10
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> "Hang tough........no way through it but to do it."
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