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I keep remembering what the honorary List "dad", Don, wrote a little whie ago. He said to remember we're ALL rowing the same boat. I think we need to bandage up our battle scars and move on...together. Carole H. --- double a enterprises <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Folks, I have been gone for about 9 days and I feel > like I have come back to > a strange and different world. This list, the > Parkinson's chatroom, and the > friends I've made from both are my support group. > Most of the time, my only > support when I need it the most. In the nine days I > was gone, humor has > evidently been banned from PIE and added to SPARKLE > (Yes I did subscribe, > PIGS ((shudder)) and all). > The Parkinson's Chatroom feels like I am trying to > see a friend, but have to > pass through a metal detector and strip search to > get there, and when I do, > all the commands have changed . And more > importantly to me, I see several > different, unrelated posts where friends of mine are > being attacked, or > belittled, or made to feel their opinion or comments > aren't wanted or > needed. And that makes me very sad to see. I am > not as funny as John, or > as eloquent as Dennis, or as good at finding > information that helps people > as Janet, or as good at summarizing with humor as > Barb etc.. I don't have > to be as good at any of those things, I have those > people already doing it > for me. What I do have to do is to be me, and speak > the truth as honestly > as I feel it. The sparkle list maybe the saving of > the PIE list for many > people, but I hope the owners of that list will > consider adding a summary to > the PIE list once a week(?) so those who cant delete > all the messages can > still enjoy some of the humor. And from what little > I've heard, the new > chatroom is even better than the old one, and there > were good reasons to > change, and to add the security, and I am sure with > time I will get use to > it, and relearn who all my friends with new names > are. > But I hope the attacks on and from friends stop > here. Several of these have > been between friends of mine, and between people who > I feel sure respect > each other. Some of them may have been meant in a > teasing manner, but came > out wrong. And I am sure some were written in anger, > and not meant. And of > course, a few meant exactly what they said. > Anyway, I > missed you while I was gone, > and missed reading the list, and I hope each of us > will realize how > important this list is to so many different people, > and again go back to > arguing about content while leaving persons out of > the criticisms. > bob "tex99" armentrout > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com