The convention

Friday was an easy day with relaxed crowds. Heard some stories of grandparents and Aunties and friends who suffer with P.D.
With each personal story is a sense of loss, but also a sense of pride in sharing their knowledge of the strength that Parkinsons patients have.
And renewed purpose for us. It's a great feeling to let family and friends know that their donation is helping find a cure. Very touching.
We were in the company of folks we'd met at MegaCon and we made new friends as well, several of whom had their own connections to P.D.
Todd Bridges (Willis from Diff'rent Strokes) came by and introduced himself. He joked a little about his past and the possibility to go back in time to fix some things in his past, but was definately happy to be in the present. Jake Busey visited our booth (Gary Busey's son) and was so nice. He has many credits to his name, but one especially significant is the movie 'Frightners' with Michael J. Fox. Jake stopped by to say 'Hi' every day, always with that big Busey smile! :D


Larry Thomas, the 'Soup Nazi' from Seinfeld was much friendlier than his screen character!

And Lois Lane herself -Margot Kidder stopped by to do some time traveling.

Funny Cartoon

A friend of mine from 30+ years ago that I recently re-connected with sent me this cartoon from a local artist in her area.
I can relate to the little guy's impatience. So often we want the future (and the things it holds for us) to come TODAY.
Every time we meet a group of people, invariably someone asks us if our time machine really goes into the future. And I always answer in the affirmative.
Our DeLorean Time Machine is carrying us into the future. But it requires patience, because it can only do it one day at a time.

Thank you, Kit, for thinking of us and sending the comic. I really like the reference to hoverboards! If I recall correctly from the movie, they appear sometime around 2015, so not much longer to wait! :)
And a special thank you to Travis Fox / www.comicstripjoint.blogspot.com
for granting permission to post his clever comic here.
O.