Dear Barb P-- what a lovely message--thank you for it, and especially for
the list which you "birthed" all those years ago! I too love Emily's
poems---
Barb, our "fearless leader" Wrote in part
>Each year when November 9 arrives, I try to reflect on what ownership and
>membership in the Parkinson's Information Exchange Network means to me.
>
>Ownership still fills me with amazement at the worldwide need for
>information about living with pd. What is also amazing is the
>extraordinary amount of information distributed by the listmembership.
>
>Membership gives me a feeling of kinship with people all over the world
>whose faces I will never see and whose voices I will never hear.
>
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>I was reading some poems by Emily Dickinson & want to share this one with
>you.
>
>Hope is the thing with feathers
>That perches in the soul,
>And sings the tune without the words,
>And never stops at all,
>
>And sweetest in the gale is heard;
>And sore must be the storm
>That could abash the little bird
>That kept so many warm.
>
>I've heard it in the chillest land,
>And on the strangest sea;
>Yet, never, in extremity,
>It asked a crumb of me.
>
>Never give up hope.
>
>Barb
>
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>Barbara Patterson [log in to unmask]
>HSC 2J22 905-525-9140, ext. 22403
> School of Nursing
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Camilla Flintermann Oxford,OH
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