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>From: edith love <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: From Where I Stand >Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:23:54 -0800 > >My dear Friends, > >Often I think of the shadow world in which we live and how much the caring >and togetherness of PIEN contributes to our lives. For some it is the only >family that makes a day bearable. For others it is contact with those who >truly understand the twists and turns our bodies take as we traverse through >another day. > >Depending upon where we sit or stand under the PD umbrella, PIEN is the >saving grace for the pain, the nausea, the daily unexpected raids upon the >little self esteem and id we somehow continue to grasp. It is the saving >grace for the loneliness, fear and exhaustion that often overpowers us. It >is a means of touching on the medical triumphs and discouragements going on >in our world for there isn't one of us who doesn't hope for that much needed >cure which some of us have waited for for thirty or more years. More than >anything, it is the hand of those who understand, the hand that signifies we >are not alone. Someone out there will offer this hand no matter what the >hour. We are blessed for we are never alone! > >Look at this family. Like any other there are differences of opinion and >misunderstandings. Sometimes when disagreements occur, without meaning to >do so we allow the frustration with which we live to overcome and offer an >opportunity to lash out against the cloud within us, to be vitriolic, to >castigate without truly meaning to do so. > >Please consider: >We have many new PIEN family members who may not be fully aware of nonPD >postings. >We get the form. It doesn't mean we read or even remember what is says! >Our error! >We have many older PIEN family members who have always felt the freedom to >share information without intentionally breaking these rules. >We, like many other families, represent many points of view. We just may >not agree! >And by all rules we have the right to disagree with one another. That is >our right as Americans. The important thing is how we do it. > >Words are like the wind. Once they are pronounced they can never be >retracted for they become the knives that cut into caring for one another. >Nothing is so important we can't discuss it intelligently and with >understanding. Nothing is so important that it is allowed to swindle our >humaneness toward one another! > >We are tiny voices of the microcosm that together take our places in the >vast macrocosm. We are each one point of a forever chain where each depends >upon the other for the survival of all! May wisdom temper how we treat one >another! > >In friendship and caring, >E of the headdress > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn