Yes, there is so much wrong with the world we live in.

And, Thelma, I can truly identify with you about the fear of the future. Ask Paula what she found me doing one night about four years ago. She walked Iinto the hotel room we were sharing and found me with a huge pile of used tissue on the floor next to my bed. I had been sobbing for two hours..."I don't want to do this!"...I must have said that a few hundred times that night.

Our government needs to be overhauled. My dermotologist said to me on Tuesday, "Not in our life time, but definitely in our great grandchildren's lifetime, or their children's lifetime, there WILL BE a revolution in America". Wow, I have never considered that as a possibility.

Darfur is happening. It is in advertisements in magazine, but rarely in the news.

China could call in our "paper" debt tomorrow. I can only imagine what that would bring about. America owes them so much debt, but we never hear about it, nor do we consider the consequences of that debt being "called."

We can't allow our children to walk the neighborhood of most cities.
We can't allow them to be a school bus stop alone.
The list is far too long.

BUT, AS PAULA SAID, WE ARE A COMMUNITY and WE CAN DO SOMETHING for our community...GRASSROOTS.

From our respective distances (our home cities/states) we can stand with Michael J Fox. Whether it is a simple phone call or a march to a Congressional office...there is always something to be done.

It could be kicking and screaming at the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies. It could simply we getting the word spread to the "healthy" community by speaking to groups and writing letter to editors and op/eds.

Being proactive...Being involved...keeps me PD-sane. I have to shove the world aside each day and do what I can humanly do to help make the world a better place in my own little, tiny way.

"There is no limit to what we can accomplish if we empower people with Parkinson's."
Perry Cohen, Ph.D., Project Director
Source...homepage...www.pdpipeline.org

p.s. The two star banner to the left represents...my son, the top star, who will be in Iraq soon...and my youngest granddauter's father, the bottom star, who has survived four tours of Afganistan. You would think one, maybe two, would be enough for one soldier. Yes, the world is a scary place.