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Well said Greg, to often we just give up and give in. You should never do that. Life's journey is never one that is easy. It is marked with ups and downs for all of us. You have found one of the keys... grab the moment and enjoy what you have. The whole world, except for two people, rest between being the best musician in the world and the worst. Places are exchanged every minute. Enjoy the ones where you move up and don't be discouraged by the ones where you move down. When you can't play, listen. When you can play, do so. When you can't play well, play anyway, just don't be your own critic. Frank cg. Teri 52/47/40 15024 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Louis" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:18 AM Subject: never say dee till ye're deid > Been over a year since I had the guts to touch my piano. My left > side's ok and there's good stuff to play with the left hand alone, but > somehow, trying to play just made me feel sorry for myself. > > Suddenly, today, I sat down and went through one of my old (two-handed) > favourites, a Schumann romance. Technically not too demanding, except > that it requires quite precise dynamic control in both hands to play it > well. Needless to say, I didn't play it well -- quite apart from the > PD, I'm months and months out of practice. But it went better than I'd > have thought. With a bit of work, it will likely come right. What a > shock: I don't have to give this up if I don't want to! > > I have _no_ idea where the urge to play came from; I was actually busy > tidying in anticipation of company coming. But I can't find words that > don't sound melodramatic to describe the exhilaration of realizing this > music thing is _not_ lost for ever. It may only be there for me on > good days (tremor's quite low today after six straight bad ones), but > it's not gone. > > It's a theme on this list: losing our happiness to PD is something > that can be fought. Never say dee till ye're deid! I had said it, and > only some mad spur-of-the-moment impulse saved me from the consequences. > > -- > | G r e g L o u i s | gpg public key: 0x400B1AA86D9E3E64 | > | http://www.bgl.nu/~glouis | (on my website or any keyserver) | > | http://wecanstopspam.org in signatures helps fight junk email. | > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn