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Ivan - Until our collective faces - the "Faces of Parkinson's" - are seen as INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEINGS we're still going to remain invisible to the rest of the world. It's not a major undertaking to have a picture taken of oneself, send it to a specific post office box, and then have a calendar or a huge collage (I favor the latter) made at a printer's and to market the end product. Someone, or some entity just has to want to take on the chore of this project - and THAT'S the hard part! (we're great on ideas here, but kinda short on energy and volunteering!) Hugs at ya, Ivan.... Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Ivan M Suzman Sent: Saturday, December 06, 1997 6:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: APDA Calendar Ideas ^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^ Ivan Suzman 48/10 [log in to unmask] Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 34 deg. F sunny *********************************************************** Hi Listmembers, Ken and Mary, Good morning! I agree with Mary that the APDA calendar is beautiful, and in fact I just received one that will go on the refrigerator in the kitchen. The APDA calendar can certainly be fine-tuned to the message of curing Parkinson's. One idea Ii want to go back to is the Unmasking Our Faces idea I posted several weeks ago. Someone later posted that we could use the classic Greek comedy and tragedy masks in becoming more VISIBLE. I like that idea--maybe we could brainstorm about a way to incorporate OUR FACES into the APDA calendar. IVAN On Sat, 6 Dec 1997 01:10:33 EST MPShee <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Ken, > >>I also like your calendar idea of showing people with an identifible >handicap, >but not a horrifying one, explaining how they deal with loss of >handwriting or >a frozen face, etc. > >Perhaps after the first of the year we could resume this discussion, >review >suggestions and present APDA with some calendar ideas that would be >more in >keeping with their purpose than the scenery and animals they're using >now. > >This would be a small step toward PD awareness, but a small step is >better >than no step, so keep thinking. > >Mary