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Beautifully said!! Thank you for the perspective. Bev Brown c/g On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 02:09:49 -0700 kees paap <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Hi Listfriends, > >Let's please not fight each other, for a word, foreigner. > >Besides that I'm the only real universal foreigner. I live in the USA, >but >I am a Dutchman, so that makes me a foreigner. But I don't feel like a >foreigner. I feel at home here. > >I've been travelling all over the world and was a foreigner in many >countries. But only in I Israel I really felt a foreigner, but I bet >it was >because I was rather shaky, which made the people nervous. No wonder >they >were nervous with all those bomb attacks.... > >So I was a foreigner in many countries and I had many foreigners with >which >I travelled through my small homecountry. Foreigners which I welcomed >very >much and honoured them, from Brasil, France, Spain, Denmark, Great >Brittain, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Schwitzerland, Israel, Austria and >Australia. They were guests of honour and I was very pleased having >them. > >I don't think that foreigner is a negative word. Aren't we all >foreigners >on our earthly journey of our life? > >I tried to encourage people to write to their gouvernment to make more >money abvailable in their homeland for research for Parkinson's >Disease. >And if they think that their gouvernment makes enough money available >for >research, well don't write. And I also would appreciate it when >foreigners, >would write to the American Gouvernment or to the American Ambassador, >to >support the application for the money of the Udall Bill. > >I hope I explained it better now, and I realize that we are the guests >of a >Canadian list and that I am a foreigner in the states and that we are >all >foreigners travelling through the Universe. But we have one thing in >common >: We have all this terrible disease named Parkinson's.....let's spend >our >energy where it is more effective and fight our little fights when we >talk >about Parkinson's as past history. > >I love you all > > >Warm greetings from a happy Dutchman in Texas, 48/9, >Sinemet 3x 125CR, Permax 3x 1.0, Tasmar 3x 100 > >**** Life is a loan, to live is an art, to live happily is a gift, to >give >is to live, to love is to give and to live, to cope with PD is all, I >thank >God daily that He gives me this loan and I will pay him back*** >