Re: From Where I Stand

["Donald F. McKinley" <flash@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "edith love" <elove59@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:23 PM
Subject: From Where I Stand


> My dear Friends,
> THIS ONE OF THE BEST POST I HAVE READ IN A LONG TIME SHE SAID SO MUCH HOW LOT 
> OF US PIEN FEEL SHE SAID THINGS I FEEL. HOW WE NEED & UNDERSTANG EACH OTHER  
> THANKS (E)  MUVH LOVE  I.Y.Q.  DON&VIVIAN
> Often I think of the shadow world in which we live and how much the caring
> and togetherness of PIEN contributes to our lives.   For some it is the only
> family that makes a day bearable.  For others it is contact with those who
> truly understand the twists and turns our bodies take as we traverse through
> another day.
> 
> Depending upon where we sit or stand under the PD umbrella, PIEN is the
> saving grace for the pain, the nausea, the daily unexpected raids upon the
> little self esteem and id we somehow continue to grasp.  It is the saving
> grace for the loneliness, fear and exhaustion that often overpowers us.  It
> is a means of touching on the medical triumphs and discouragements going on
> in our world for there isn't one of us who doesn't hope for that much needed
> cure which some of us have waited for for thirty or more years.  More than
> anything, it is the hand of those who understand, the hand that signifies we
> are not alone.  Someone out there will offer this  hand no matter what the
> hour.  We are blessed for we are never alone!
> 
> Look at this family.  Like any other there are differences of opinion and
> misunderstandings.  Sometimes when disagreements occur, without meaning to
> do so we allow the frustration with which we live to overcome and offer an
> opportunity to lash out against the cloud within us, to be vitriolic, to
> castigate without truly meaning to do so.
> 
> Please consider:
> We have many new PIEN family members who may not be fully aware of nonPD
> postings.
> We get the form.  It doesn't mean we read or even remember what is says!
> Our error!
> We have many older PIEN family members who have always felt the freedom to
> share information without intentionally breaking these rules.
> We, like many other families, represent many points of view.  We just may
> not agree!
> And by all rules we have the right to disagree with one another.  That is
> our right as Americans.  The important thing is how we do it.
> 
> Words are like the wind.   Once they are pronounced they can never be
> retracted for they become the knives that cut into caring for one another.
> Nothing is so important we can't discuss it intelligently and with
> understanding.  Nothing is so important that it is allowed to swindle our
> humaneness toward one another!
> 
> We are tiny voices of the microcosm that together take our places in the
> vast macrocosm.  We are each one point of a forever chain where each depends
> upon the other for the survival of all!  May wisdom temper how we treat one
> another!
> 
> In friendship and caring,
> E of the headdress
> 
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