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From:
Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:53:34 -0500
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Hi Steve,

           I am glad you saw this and as List Administrator 3 of 4  - I will
see which one of us has the savey to handle this. Betty?  This maybe a Deri
thing - and he maybe beddy bye by now - or maybe its only late afternoon
there - 5ish 6ish  ---

                                     Trisha - who is latitudinally time
challenged!!

> I got caught waiting for a response from you or for the Dystonia Digest.
> And sending warning.  It was serendipity that I found Happy 99 attached
> to the CPL Digest and an Unexpected Attachment from an otherwise blank
> apparently mass mailing from Mag (see below.)?
>
> I hate "Crying Wolf."  Wasn't faulting Mag.  Virii take on lives of
> their own when they find a computer to cozy.
>
> I tend to delete, then ask.  (One of those who doesn't like surprises
> and uninvited visitors.)  Would any of the List Manager's prefer I file
> and forward suspect attachments?
>
>  ISM
>
> Subject: Fwd: birthday news
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:57:13 EST
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> Full-name: Tamar40
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> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:24:01 EST
> Subject: Fwd: birthday news
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> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:20:27 EST
> Subject: birthday news
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> Dear Friends and family,
>
> Due to carpal tunnel syndrome, I am sending out this letter to all of
> you.
> There is a paper newsletter to follow, but I need to print them all out,
> it
> contains different news.
>
> Next sunday I will be 44 years old. I am getting my house in order to
> receive
> some guests who are coming in the next month or so. My new place is 98
> percent fixed up..
>
> Mimi Farina has lung cancer. I don't know if you know of her
> organization,
> Bread and Roses, but they bring free concerts and entertainment  to
> prisoners, shut-ins at hospitals and institutions. They put on about 450
> events a year. That's more than Bob Hope does!
>
> Anyway a bunch of us on the Joan Baez list are pooling some money to
> send
> Mimi a dozen roses in a beautiful vase, and a basket of baked breads and
> cakes to celebrate Mimi's 25th year of B&R. Next monday, the 20th, my
> friend
> Nadine, from France, and I, are going to the B&R event at San
> Francisco's War
> Memorial Opera Hall. Joan, Kris Kristoferson, Pete Seeger etc., will all
> be
> there, so it should be a great concert.
>
> Mimi has given several interviews, and she is being so brave about it!!!
> They
> discovered the cancer in december. In the interview today, the article
> said
> it had metastasized, (tears)  and Mimi is now using both alternative and
> standard treatments.
>
> Anyhow, some of us will be doing prayers and meditations on Mimi with
> golden
> or violet light. what a horrible thing to go through, but I guess she
> has to
> learn to slow down and take care of herself.
>
> I mentioned my friend (Nadine) from France, she will be here from the
> 17th to
> april 1st. She is a delightful, sweet, passionate young lady who is
> innocent
> in a lot of ways, and yet she is aware of many sad things. she  is like
> 27,
> but she acts like a teen sometimes. so that should be interesting.
>
> Then april 10th - 22 my friend, Theresa, from Ohio who has cp and is
> also a
> Baez fan, will be here checking out the disability stuff, as things are
> quite
> bad for Theresa in Cleveland, i.e. living with her grandparents and the
> g-father is physically abusive to her. and cleveland's UCP has merged
> with
> MR. (mental retardation) and they don't encourage independent living.
> So
> Theresa is checking out options. She has become close with Joan's
> administrative assistant. and also the Baez band tour bus driver and
> tour
> manager (who have actually gone to cleveland and met her )  who all
> agree the
> g-father needs a kick in the butt!  Theresa's abuse just makes me cry,
> she
> never had a toilet on the  ground floor either at home or at school, so
> her
> digestive system is totally fucked up, (imagine having to CRAWL UP AND
> DOWN
> STAIRS TO GO TO THE BATHROOM) she has had about a dozen surgeries on her
> various intestines and kidneys, etc.
>
> And because she inherited an eye problem (thin corneas, i think) from
> her
> dad, and her g-father beats her on the head, she also has recurring
> bouts of
> near blindness. it made me very grateful that our lives were not that
> horrible when we were kids. (her mom abandoned her...)  and grateful
> that we
> lived in california.
>
> where btw, I recently heard that disabled prisoners here in california,
> have
> had to crawl up stairs to get to their court hearings... i mean
> jezsus...
> deaf people who communicate in sign have  been unable to testify, due to
> their hands being in shackles! it's almost unreal.. so, we still have
> work to
> do.
>
> Love,Tamar
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