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George Bousliman has written a great letter to Mayor Stewart. Many thanks to all of you who have written to support Bob and Jodie. I think this is our best project ever. It shows we can come together. Individual letters provide wide perspectives on this incident. I will be working to try to get bigger PD orgs to make this a national issue. Ray Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bousliman To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:17 PM Subject: mistake Dear Mayor, Several years ago, I saw then Congressman (Senator?) Mo Udall at the Denver airport in what appeared to be an extreme state of inebriation. I remember thinking at the time, "....what a clown. You'd think he could kept his drunken appearances away from the public eye." Years later I discovered the truth. Udall wasn't drunk; he was displaying the classical synptoms of Parkinson's disease. Only when was diagnosed with Parkinson's myself did I realize the enormity of my misjudgment. I'm reminded of a quote frolm Dean Koontz, as follows? "Not one day in anyone's life, so her father taught, is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down's-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness--even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile--reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will. All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined--those dead, those living, those generations yet to come--that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands." - Dean Koontz: From the Corner of His Eye, page 561. The ripple effect of my misjudgement will go on forever. As a society, we can only hope that fewer misguided stones are cast in the future. Sincerely, George L.Bousliman 673 South Montana Ave. Helena, Mt 59601 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn