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Hi Joan and Stan, Thank you Joan for bringing thanksgiving and gratitude to my breakfast table this morning... I was very encouraged by the latest articles on Stem Cell Research and just had to cut 'n paste and pass it on to all of you in the hope that you might also find it uplifting. And I'm very glad you did! <BEAM> I try to find positive things every day with the idea that we can make a difference. Best regards ............ murray On 25 Nov 2000, at 7:33, Joan and Stan Snyder wrote: > Dear David, Murray, Sid & Don: > First of all, I'd like to thank you four gentlemen for vastly improving > my outlook towards people and my sense of gratitude! First of all, thank > you so much for pointing the way to the article about why the pilgrims > could want to give thanks, David...beautiful sentiment & beautifully > told. Secondly, thanks to Murray for all of his postings but especially > those recent posts about cell regeneration. I don't know if I am the > only person to feel this way, but I feel that this is an exciting time > to be alive and I intend to be a part of the cure-in my own small way. > Sid, Thank you for your kind and gentle encouragement and for always > saying the right thing! BTW, your book came in yesterday's mail & I > can't wait to dig into it!! Thank you and the work that you do for the > Alliance!! and then on to Don...you are the man who gives me the example > to go on with my life! I felt that when we dedicated our book to you > just as surely as I feel it now. As to what kind & color of ribbon, I > have for years been making & distributing my own PD awareness & > remembrance pins (being the renegade that I am & getting no answer from > the list). At this years unity walk, we passed out several hundreds of > them. The design is quite simple actually, a narrow silver loop crossed > and glues like the aids ribbon or the breast cancer pin. I used silver > to represent the folk with pd who get it when they are 65+-the older > onsetters. > Then to show that we are united in the struggle against the disease, I > tied a navy blue (yes, Hillary, cobalt is my favorite color, too) > ribbon into a bow and glued it onto the silver loop right where it > intersects. This is to represent the early onsetters dxed w/ PD. I will > put several of my own pins in the mail for you & for anyone else who > would like some! I'm not trying to rebel against the traditional tulip > nor the hourglass symbols but rather needed a ribbon and this worked for > me!! Thanks again to the four of you for enriching my life. j > > -- > Joan E. Blessington Snyder 49/10 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.geocities.com/joanbsnyder/ > http://ww.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm > "Hang tough............no way through it but to do it." > Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure) ********************* [log in to unmask]