Jayne, just saying in response to your message:There were times when I sat still, just listening to people talk, just looking at the world you all helped create around us, when I said to myself, "this is a moment not like any other". And I tried to capture it in my head, because it was so beautiful.I thank you all so much, for being with me, for being us.--m_______________________________________________On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Suhler, Jayne <jsuhler@mail.smu.edu> wrote:
I have fallen through the looking glass back into my real life. Emails, phone calls, meetings to prepare for, students to tend to, reports to write. My brain is ready to explode and I've only been back for two days.
Out there in the east Texas heat with all of you I felt more alive, more focused, more able to think deeply and widely. The words - ah, those wonderful words - came trippingly on the tongue with you. Here it is stressful. There it was intense. Here it is messy. There it was ordered. Here tiring. There exhiliarating. Don't get me wrong - I have a pretty darn good life. But the week with you makes me remember how much meaning and joy is derived from pure, uninhibited play. No computers, no phones, no job: just us and Doc and that barn and Shakespeare.
My iPhone is buzzing again and I feel you all slipping away. Let's promise ourselves that we won't let that happen, at least in our hearts and souls. Remember always that hot, spectacular week in 2010 that forever changed us in big ways and small.
You took my breath away and I love you for it,
Jayne
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From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pees, Robert [rpees@AkinGump.com]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:39 AM
Subject: [Weeklong-l] "...let the world slip, we shall ne'er be younger."
This morning I returned to my job as a tinker of sorts. I took the D Train, which, by the way, is not “fleeter than the roe.” For me, last week was exhilarating—to have such wonderful people convince you that you are a lord indeed is true magic. I am so grateful to all of you. Right now I’m typing this in an office on the forty-first floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, but it is not nearly as high as the throne you created for me on a wooden platform in a converted hay barn in Fayette County Texas.
All my love,
Bob
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