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Dear List-family..... "Shy-person" said in a message sent to, and posted by our List-mama, Barb Patterson... "I'm especially thoughtful about a comment that [another member] made recently about PARKINSN not being a place to share feelings and opinions, but to convey information. Is that the current perspective? I want a place to share feelings and opinions..." FYI... I was the individual who is quoted, inaccurately as it happens, in saying our list is "NOT a place to share feelings and opinions." MY original comment referred to our List BEING a place FOR both sharing of feelings and opinions, and ALSO information, and I felt we should see the List as offering opportunities for each to be expressed. I've seen several references to my original comment being inaccurately interpreted (which leads me to believe I wasn't clear in MY meaning... ) over this past week, and then "quoted" out-of-context and changing my meaning to other than what I meant to say. In THIS case I'd like it understood that I MEANT something other than what is being concluded when "quoted" from my original post by other List members. Sorry if I was unclear in my original post. My daughter moved back to L.A. after living in another city for the past 12 years and I've spent the past coupla weeks helping her unpack and getting her new home set up. I've rushed thru reading the List each day and obviously my writing's suffered vis a vis expressing clarity of thought. But OH.... it's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO wonderful having daughter Sandy living near her family after all these years!!!!!!!!!!!!! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Patterson <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 6:41 PM Subject: Another list? (fwd) >I am forwarding this message [slightly edited] from a listmember for >discussion. Barb >***** >Hi Barb, > >I thought I'd ask you this first. I feel like an oddball on this list >because there are a few members who post often and take up a lot of >"space", are fairly articulate, authoritative, etc. You do a great job >keeping the list together and running, but I have thought about the need >for an alternate "shy people's" list, a place where the shy, the tired, the >less articulate, the skeptical, the scared, and even the gloomy could >gather in safety and have voices that don't get drowned out. > >I'm especially thoughtful about a comment that [another member] made >recently about PARKINSN not being a place to share feelings and opinions, >but to convey information. Is that the current perspective? I want a place >to share feelings and opinions. What would be your feeling about someone >starting up a less intimidating forum for shy person's sharing about issues >relating to having Parkinson's Disease? I know nothing about how to do this >but would find out as needed. > >Hope you're doing well and don't regard these comments as mutinous. >