Well-done! I give this piece a standing ovation. Thanks for creating a keepsake.
David On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Alice Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, Mike, thank you so much for sending this, and you too, Madge, for > putting it on Facebook. It was wonderful to walk through the living history > led by Doc, to observe him observing all of us, to see the project through > his scholarship and discoveries and memories and insights and continual > subtle and bold adjustments to his work. > > Kelsi, are you on this email list? Congratulations on a beautiful job. I'm > deeply grateful for this document. I confess to having a favorite passage > already, even though rereadings will bookmark many more: > > They also remember the times when they didn't quite do it, and they laugh > those off. And that's fine. While I'm preaching one message, I'm also very > much aware that the very first thing we do here is fail. And there's > nothing wrong with that. The only way from failure—you go straight up. > There's no way to fail worse. We expect that, and I told them at the > beginning, "Don't worry about starting, don't worry about later on, but > you're going to reach a point where you're going to be beyond that. That > is, failure or weakness is not going to be a possibility at all, and you're > not going to make excuses because all [excuses] do is say that something > has control over you. You have control over you. Get it?" And they get it. > > Doc! > > LOVE to all, > Alice > > On Apr 30, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Laura Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great story.. Thanks for sharing! > > Laura > > On Friday, April 29, 2016, Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oops. Here's the URL: >> >> http://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/let-wonder-seem-familiar-history-shakespeare-winedale >> >> Mike >> >> >> On Friday, April 29, 2016, Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A whole lot of this long article is Doc's first-person accounts of how >>> S-at-W cane to be. This piece includes so much that I managed to learn >>> more stuff I hadn't known before--which was great! Includes >>> contributions from former students too. >>> >>> >>> --Mike >>> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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