Reply To: Where’s Peter — Status

[peter]

Thanks for the recommendation, @Teebacca and @Kirean thanks for your suggestion. I did try a vertical mouse at a computer store a couple of years ago, maybe I should just buy one and try it for a while. Thanks for the suggestion.

Beyond the fact that I’m still disappointed in what went down with Larry and the reality is my tendinitis getting really bad a short while later was disappointing because of the timing. But I want to acknowledge and thank everyone in the community for being so kind and thoughtful. This community has come together and made me feel everything, all of the hours I’ve put into this, all of the money I’ve spent, has resulted in keeping together a really wonderful group of people.  And yes, I do still hope for Larrry to call me. I’m not into holding grudges or getting even with people; life is too short to be so petty. My hope is always for a resolution and friendship.

So thanks to everyone in the community, and a special thanks to those who’ve posted supportive and encouraging messages — those are always great to see and they mean a lot to me  FTR, I didn’t share about my tendinitis for people to feel bad about it or look for pity (I loathe the idea of that; I don’t want it). I just didn’t want people coming here, seeing the deals posts slow down a bit and think that it wasn’t a priority to me.  It is. I just got a bit sidelined by tendinitis. It does bum me out a little. But I’m very resilient. I have family with disabilities and advise (pro bono) a wonderful organization that provides mobility equipment for children with disabilities. My tendinitis is nothing compared to what my loved ones and friends I’ve known deal with. I’ve lost a number of friends in recent years, one good friend who lost both legs and one arm in an accident when he was 14, another with severe osteogenesis imperfecta AKA brittle bone disease that severely contorted her bones who had three major strokes before she died before seeing 40. I certainly don’t deal with anything remotely close to that. I wish I could still play music, but I had 12 years of playing before audiences and great memories. It was largely through my encouraging others with disabilities to create music in a forum for people with osteogenesis imperfecta for an organization I provide that made me realize that I gave up on music because I couldn’t play with other musicians anymore of play at a level of proficiency I expected of myself, so I just stopped and it seemed clear to me that way I thought of myself was not how I encouraged others. I’d tell them to not give up, that you can still enjoy music despite your limitations, while personally, my inability to play as I once did caused me to throw in the towel. For me, it’s always been easy to encourage others. It’s harder to do it for myself. It was due to a friend — and then a second friend — encouraging me to try to play again, then to keep at it, that I started up trying to make music a few years ago and haven’t stopped since.

Anyhow, it’s another way too long post from me. Sorry. I promise to get the system emails up this week and after that we open the site to public registration. But very candidly, just speaking from the heart, the encouragement that all of you have been to me has made all of this worthwhile. I’m quite happy with a small community. Yes, I’m going to grow this community, but having this small group has been wonderful. There are truly some really great people here from all around the world.

• This reply was modified 12 months ago by peter.

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