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^^^^^^GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^ Ivan Suzman 47/10 [log in to unmask] Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 40 deg. Fstorm warning but sky is clear *********************************************************** Hello everyone, and especially Barbara Patterson, Marvin and Kristen Giles, Arthur Hirsch, Sonia of Denmark....... When Arthur HIrsch wrote us on 10/18 about the 30 or so PWP's and CG's in the #parkinsons Chatroom, whose PICTURES are on the world wide web, a PICTURE idea for all of us on this List hit me, that I wanted to share. But first, just a quick word about my Support Group, that met today. I just got in from the monthly meeting of the Greater Portland Parkinson's Support Group. It was great---we had a physical therapist showing us how to STRETCH. She was very funny and had a great attitude. If we only had a video camera it would have been an award-winner...at one point she had all of us with our arms outstretched and extended outwards,, like a "Y" in the alphabet, and I wanted to sing " -M-C-A" (Does anybody out there know the song I'm talking about?)....I was 20 years younger than just about everybody. I used to feel so depressed about being in my 30's with PD, but now, when I'm at the Group,. it makes me feel privileged to be around all that "age-enhanced" wisdom.......and those smiling faces help me to cope.....and feel less alone. Now, back to the PICTURES idea.... So anyway, I want to thank Marvin and Kristen Giles for creating the nifty Parkinson's Friends PICTURE site on the web. What I am thinking is that there must be some way that some smart programmer (that's NOT me) could input our PICTURES into the Parkinson's List, so that at the top of each of our e-mail posts, our PICTURE would show, each one maybe about the size of a postage stamp. Maybe we could either send a PICTURE by scanner, or even by surface mail,to Barbara Patterson in Canada, or to whoever would collect the pictures. Wouldn't it be INTRIGUING to see each other's faces at the top of the messages we send one another? I kind of imagine that everybody would feel more like a family. Incidentally, I saw Sonia of Denmark for the first time at the Parkinson's Friends web site while "Here Comes the Sun" came over the speaker--it was REALLY a TREAT!----she's the Lioness--and now I know more about why she created the Aarhus zoo idea, earlier this year. Hi, Sonia! I'll close for now, hoping that this idea can really come to life... Ivan Suzman 47/10 Portland, Maine