hi art you wrote: >...I am a patient, but I am also impatient. I have patience >for our leadership to do the job right, but little more than >is needed. I certainly don't have patience for several national >organizations squabbling among each other. me too! >In my humble opinion, the Parkinson's Patient Congress already >exists, in a manner of speaking, here on the Parkinson's Information >Exchange, THIS LISTSERV (pardon me for shouting), and had and >continues to have comparable power to NPF, PAN, APDA, and the >other organizations. no hierarchy? the ultimate democracy? no room for power struggles? no incentive for power struggles? >What's even more awesome is that we are an international >organization, which might even start to get Parkinson >organizations throughout the world to work together >with common agenda. Why not? why not indeed! >Y'see, I'm impatient! and feisty, by the sounds of it! >And it's only one of several great things that the listserv >does. Thank you, Barb Patterson, for this wonderful gift. me too! your spirited cyber-sis janet janet [log in to unmask]