Hi everybody, I am trying to recover, and so here I am for the first time snce Wednesday. I am still drained, but Antoinette says I have too much fight in me to just roll over and die. I guess she's right, but I am not ready to re-emerge yet. Somehow, I don' t know why, Sheila's message did something for me to accept that things will work out soomehow.( I am sorry that Bob had a computer crash and hope Bob got the testimony eventually.) So did Camilla's and Jeanette's and Hilary's and Connie Tate's, and Gerry and Brig's , and one or two more I just don't remember right now. I'm starting to recover, but scared of the phone bill and the winter around the corner. I had enough energy to have gone to the duckponds and talk birdwatching with the Park Ranger today . THere are four little ponds, not more than a mile away. I t was beautiful. and I hope that I will feel better tomorrow. But I have no roommate or housemate right now and am nervous about the long winter ahead. I am reaching a point of decision and I just don't know what to do next. The PD has scared away potential caregivers, with Maine's low, low wage of $6.25/hour.I'm on Social Security so I am unable to find extra money to pay supplemental wages. I will keep trying but the climate here is so difficult. Getting cool now, upper 30's to 40's at night. Well at least I got 15 pages SUBMITTED ON TIME and received by all of you as well. Your support is helping me to keep going when I am still worn out by this past week I keep a scrapbook in a 3-ring binder so if you ever want to surface mail me a picture, my address is 9 Range ST Portland Maine 04103. Thanks again everybody! Ivan PS I'm not ready to r ead the new mail yet, so if you wrote me recently it's possibly still unread. On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:53:18 -0700 Sheila De Vine <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Ivan, > >Don't feel your time was wasted.... > >Never does energy exerted go unnoticed. Everything we put out adds to >the >energy that is necessary to get things done. You maybe didn't see it >or >hear it....yet. But, rest assured, someone saw it...someone heard >it....someone received collective energy of the PD universe >yesterday....and >it all makes a difference....not because one person did something but >because everyone who did something did it....Yours was a part of the >whole......the whole that will succeed in this fight. > > >Thank you for taking the time. > >Sheila De Vine >[log in to unmask] ^^^^^^ WARM GREETINGS FROM ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-) Ivan Suzman 49/39/36 [log in to unmask] :-) Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 42 deg. F :-) ********************************************************************