Stuttering is only a small percentage of my life. 30% of my life is work, 40% is sleep, the other 30% is everything else (TV, eat, shit, read, talk, drive, run, shower, and etc). So this means that stuttering must be less than 10%. The major irony is that the problem goes away when you no longer care or are less concerned about it. This is why I believe so much in voluntary stuttering. If you are not afraid of stuttering, then you don't have a stuttering problem.
The major highlight is that I went to Baltimore for the NSA convention (first time) at the end of June. It was a positive experience for 3 days. Met Russ Hicks, Lou Madonna, Fred Murrary, Ira Zimmerman, and many many other people. Joe Biden (a former stutterer) gave a good keynote speech. He said not to let stuttering define you. He also said to be realistic, using Cal Ripken as an example. "You will never hit a baseball like Cal Ripken"
Baltimore is my Staten Island. My family and I arrived in Baltimore when we came to the USA as immigrants. In a way, my trip to Baltimore is going back to where I am from.
No more East Bay meetings, I have been going to the San Jose chapter meetings. Will try to attend Sac and SF meetings. Still watch for John Melendez on the Jay Leno tonight show, and see if he will ever stutter on TV. The tv show-The amazing race, is cool.
Nothing special, except that I was sick for 10 days (today is the second to last day that I will be sick) and thought I got AIDS. The weather this week is foggy and more like fall than summer.
No more postings for a while, but I will say this: "what is life without hopes and dreams???"
Thursday, July 29, 2004
RFK Quotes
Robert F. Kennedy
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?...Robert F. Kennedy
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation....
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