Hey Sweethearts! I am at my Mom's ranchetta for the next few days but I won't be able to get into Austin until after this thursday. But I don't return to Tallahassee until Sept 12th so if anyone is in Austin during the stretch of time between this thursday and the 12th, I would love to gather with all who are there to gather and have dinner and a drink or two. I am feeling deprived of your good company both in mind and body -- although I am still enjoying country living of a sorts. My Mom has 28 acres of land with shade trees and a big old pond and a pool where Donna, my sisters, my Mom, my brother-in-law and I swim during the late afternoons; and then at night ,float on our backs and and gaze at the stars until they make us dizzy. Every time I look up, I have a moment of disconnect and think I'm back at Winedale. I love and miss you all -- well, some even more than others. I can't get over how all I had to do was just hold my arm out and Craig would start softly stroking it. When I tried that little trick with Donna Marie, she gave me a look worthy of Petruchio's spaniel. Hah! And Love to you all Terry -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Meyer <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu> To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: 'Bekah Meyer' <rmeyer(a)mail.hockaday.org> Sent: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 12:44 pm Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] "...let the world slip, we shall ne'er be younger." I, too, returned to the 'real world" at 0630 today to deal with recruitment trategies, cost over-runs, and unrealistic expectations. I will admit that I am aving a very hard time not speaking in meter, not singing for my supper, and ot sweating through my clothes and "checking my stream". Bob put it eloquently. am already in withdrawal from the magic.... his morning I returned to my job as a tinker of sorts. I took the D Train, hich, by the way, is not "fleeter than the roe." For me, last week was xhilarating-to have such wonderful people convince you that you are a lord ndeed is true magic. I am so grateful to all of you. Right now I'm typing his in an office on the forty-first floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, but it is ot nearly as high as the throne you created for me on a wooden platform in a onverted hay barn in Fayette County Texas. All my love, ob ___________________________________ RS Circular 230 Notice Requirement: This communication is not given in the form f a covered opinion, within the meaning of Circular 230 issued by the United tates Secretary of the Treasury. Thus, we are required to inform you that you annot rely upon any tax advice contained in this communication for the purpose f avoiding United States federal tax penalties. In addition, any tax advice ontained in this communication may not be used to promote, market or recommend transaction to another party. he information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the ersonal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you have eceived this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, nd delete the original message. ______________________________________________ eeklong-l mailing list eeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org ttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l

Oh, Clayton, we were ALL meant to be traipsing through your front yard at 1 am last night. My plane flew WAY off course. I am slowly beginning to process all this myself, just watching moments float by in my head, and tearing up from emotional complexity, or is it from simple love and lack of all your company and the project of the words that has me going? As it always does, Winedale widened my field of inspiration to keep me connected to it, and to you. On the plane I picked up Marilynne Robinson's extraordinary novel Gilead, a book-length letter from an old man who nears Doc's capacity to hold the world in love. He is a preacher who is the son of a preacher who is the son of a preacher, writing of his life in 1950 to his seven-year-old son, whom he knows he will not see grow up. Passage after passage spoke of the experience we had just shared. Here's one. I'll trust that the "spiritual but not or no longer religious" among us, and I count as one, might appreciate it together: "Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our behavior, and the reaction of God to us might be thought of as aesthetic rather than morally judgmental in the ordinary sense. How well do we understand our role? With how much assurance do we perform it? .... Well, we all bring such light to bear on these great matters as we can. I do like Calvin's image, though because it suggests how God might actually enjoy us. I believe we think about that far too little. It would be a way into understanding essential things, since presumably the world exists for God's enjoyment, not in any simple sense, of course..." A resident at the artist colony where I work produced the attached improvised call and response duet between an Irishman and a Lakota man. You might want to play it with speakers rather than just on your computer. Both songs are, in the singers' respective cultures, songs of exile. Their singing it together marked a moment of suspension of bitter feelings between the two cultures; witnesses felt a lifting of burden. It feels like exile to me to be away from you. But this says that in a more beautiful way. Again from Gilead: "So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for." Alice

Dear Bob and Fellow Servants, Thank you for making me fall in love with the Induction, our rendering of it being, for me, the perfect image of what we were about. I've never liked it particularly, but the way it came together as we listened and focused, and ideas flowed- YES! I LOVE THAT! I LOVE YOU! As Alice says, more anon, and sweet Susan, I did get the photos. And yours, too, Matt. And will keep up and try to respond to the eloquent messages that are pouring in. Mary ________________________________ From: "Pees, Robert" <rpees(a)AkinGump.com> To: "weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Bekah Meyer <rmeyer(a)mail.hockaday.org> Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 12:39:15 PM 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 ____________________________________ IRS Circular 230 Notice Requirement: This communication is not given in the form of a covered opinion, within the meaning of Circular 230 issued by the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Thus, we are required to inform you that you cannot rely upon any tax advice contained in this communication for the purpose of avoiding United States federal tax penalties. In addition, any tax advice contained in this communication may not be used to promote, market or recommend a transaction to another party. The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message.

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(a)mail.smu.edu> wrote:

Dear Friends, What a drink at the well it has been to read all the fine, funny, and poignant messages. As the old jalopy revs up and merges back into traffic, I find myself meditating on the quality of time of last week, how structured and breakneck it was at the time and how utterly suspended it seems in retrospect. What a luxury to have a week to inhabit so many worlds at once: Winedale-the barn and the pecan trees and the starry nights and even all that heat-and courts and taverns and forests and streets-all of them simultaneously mythical and real. Not to mention the nightly Shelby pajama party. I feel stirred to the soul by being in your company and Doc's and in the presence of those texts. I am reminded of how much there is to mine from the words, how each rehearsal reveals something more than the one before, and how meaning lies at the intersection of infinite possibility and finite choice. A lot to chew on. Mostly, though, I am so grateful to have had the chance to be there with all of you who awed me with your skills and smarts and daring, and made me fall in love for the first time or all over again with your good hearts and your general hilariousness. But come, your epilogue! I mean... your Bergomask! Your loving and devoted, Maggie From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Clay Stromberger Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:46 PM To: mnemonic(a)gmail.com; weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] "...let the world slip, we shall ne'er be younger." well said both of you, thanks. i agree and some of my favorite moments arrived when i just stopped (let go of) all the thinking and planning ahead onstage and just stood still and listened to and looked into the eyes of michael, or mike, or jayne, or madge, or bob, or maggie, or alice, (though I could not see them) jeff or terry.... or listening and watching privately from the balcony to a scene i was not in -- pure joy. time stopped. there was a time for all things, and time FOR all things. i'll be thinking of all of you as i charge back into my work with children in the schools next week... for now it's five more days to wring the final moments of play and joy out of summer with the kids. Hem, boys!!! c On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Mike Godwin wrote: 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(a)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 ________________________________ From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pees, Robert [rpees(a)AkinGump.com] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:39 AM To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: 'Bekah Meyer' 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 ____________________________________ IRS Circular 230 Notice Requirement: This communication is not given in the form of a covered opinion, within the meaning of Circular 230 issued by the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Thus, we are required to inform you that you cannot rely upon any tax advice contained in this communication for the purpose of avoiding United States federal tax penalties. In addition, any tax advice contained in this communication may not be used to promote, market or recommend a transaction to another party. The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l Clayton Stromberger Outreach Coordinator, UT Shakespeare at Winedale College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin www.shakespeare-winedale.org cell: 512-228-1055, cell #2 (backup): 512-363-6864 UT Sh. at W. office: 512-471-4726