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hi all At 10:57 1999/09/03 +0200, bern wrote: >Dear Janet, >Your poem got to me, are you feeling depressive today >or are you generally having a bad time.?... neither! that 'pome' was some musing on thoughts and observations which had been percolating in my head for awhile i will take your reaction as one of the nicest compliments about my writing that i've ever had! >I have a saying which goes like this. >If your face wants to smile, Let it. If it doesn't, Make it... sort of like an old song about whistling "whenever i feel afraid...." >Easy for me to write but I honestly try to smile no matter how I feel. >The world is for most Parkinson patients one big up and down, mainly >downs when I am to be honest... i think it's important that we 'allow' ourselves to feel lousy when we feel lousy it was also important to me to realize that i could actively make a conscious choice in how i looked at ... everything! >I hope that I have made a mistake about your Poem and >that you feel on top of the world. Bern. >http://members.teleweb.at/bernard.shaw/poetry.html i don't know if i would call it a 'mistake' if my words grabbed your heart and did a little twisting there maybe it's a case of my words having the 'power' to grab maybe it's a case of your heart being open and 'twistable' janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0 a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> <[log in to unmask]>