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hi all greg wrote, in part: > As much as I am glad to read that Ms. Reno > has finally spoken publicly and personally > about her disease, I'll save my "hurrahs"... > When Ms. Reno demonstrates a genuine interest > in the PD community beyond her immediate > family, I will gladly join those who are > singing her praises. Until then, I will > continue to wonder why a person with such > a "bully pulpit" from which to speak (her > celebrity as a former Attorney General) > has chosen until now to brush off every > suggestion that she step up to the plate > and make a real difference in the fight >to find a cure ... > PS - I would include in my list of those > at the front of the line when "hurrah's" > are in order, the original poster of this > thread, Janet Paterson. Yowsa! ... my dear greg thank you for the hurrah and the yowsa! over the past several years i've been trying hard to learn how not to judge or criticise others according to my 'perception' or expectations it's tough mainly because our society's values (i.e.our collective and multi-generational brain-washing aka brain-staining) are all tangled up in a seemingly endless cycle of confrontational modes of thought - 'my way or the highway' 'black versus white' 'us and them' it is important to me to keep trying to learn how to view others without criticism because that's the only way that i am going to learn how to view myself without criticism aka with compassion aka with love which i richly 'deserve' as do you and as do all of us i've experienced lots of past instances of criticism by others of me and my actions (who of us haven't?) and i sure didn't like it much (who of us have?) viz 'who the heck are they to tell me ... ?' i am now conviced that we do the best we can with what we know at the time with what we have learned so far on our journey each one of us is unique with a unique task to solve or a unique journey to undertake we are not here to compete with each other comparisons and competition are odious viz no one is 'better' or 'worse' than another no one is 'better off' or 'worse off' than another to paraphrase rose lane yet again - 'as novices we think we are responsible for the way others treat us; but we are responsible only for the way we treat others' aka 'treat others the way we like to be treated' aka 'love your neighbour (or enemy) as yourself' the generosity that i see in janet reno is the same generosity that i see in you is the same spirit which we all share much love janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit primarily perky, parky pd: 56-41-37 cd: 56-44-43 tel: 613-256-8340 email: [log in to unmask] my newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newvoicenews/ my website: 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