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hi all is now revealed! our intrepid len 'chy' casavant the founding father of 'Travels With Parkinsons' just happened to be in new york city last week and since he has long admired the today show mostly due to katie couric's contributions to it found himself one friday morning at a restaurant eating breakfast with one hand and colouring / drawing a poster / sign with the other he joined hundreds of other hopefuls in front of the NBC Today Show windows on Rockefeller Plaza, and brandished his sign proclaiming Parkinson's disease awareness and the pd unity walk and the only pd talk radio show on the planet he was approached by a man with a severe tremor, who was drawn to chy by the pd sign this man from west virginia had had pd for 30 years and had not met another parky had not been to a support group meeting but he reached out to chy in the mass of people and televsion cameras and all the big apple seeds they talked awhile and then were asked if they wanted their photo taken the result is now on chy's web page travels with parkinson's: talk-radio with a purpose: http://www.geocities.com/chycasavant/ . chy didn't catch his name, but hopes that his new-found buddy will keep in touch - they both were given instructions by the photo people as to how to view their photo and how to order copies of same online at the nbc store: http://www.nbcpix.com . code 138-326 so chy didn't get his sign plastered all over national television, but maybe he accomplished something even more important in the name of pd awareness he's my hero and i'm his unofficial publicistess and marketing directrix janet "the process in the key the result is destiny" - elvis stoiko janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . snail mail: 375 Country Street, Apt 301, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn