[tim]

Sleep is what tomorrow is for!

What a nice ride back on the South Shore. (Thanks to Fitz and Scruff for playing red cap and handing my bags.) I thoroughly enjoyed it. Even the parts I almost actually slept through.

It was great to meet so many of you in person and put a (non-clown) face with the name. How good it was to see Tricia, Fred, and the others from Mooseburger again! I'll never tire of taking classes with them or spending time around such quality people who are also great instructors and entertainers, not to mention friends. They truly went out of their way and put it all on the table; much more than could have been asked or expected. They deserve a hearty thanks.

I made new friends, grew in friendship with old ones, learned a lot, and grew as a clown, as a person, and for my business. It was a unique opportunity; one which I hope everyone appreciates well.

And yet it was only a start. The first clown forum Spring Fling may have come to a close. Yet, certainly, there are other opportunities yet to be realized (perhaps not only in South Bend but beyond) in this regard. Clown-Forum.com and the clowning community, at large, is a very unique, quite special thing which we all must work to foster and nurture as much as possible. My hope is that each of us can, in our own individual and collective way, find opportunities and commit ourselves to further this endeavor by both blooming where we are planted and taking risks by going outside ourselves and sometimes all too comfortable environments.

Congratulations and thanks to Fitzwilly (Dan) and all others who participated in this great event by making one significant such step in that positive direction.

We all missed you Willace, but thought about you often all weekend. While we all wished you could have joined us in presence, you were most certainly accompanying us in spirit. I'm confident that there are going to be many other opportunities for you to experience gatherings like this one, if you simply stick with it and stay committed to growth as a clown by doing whatever little you can when possible in this regard. Thank you for your own faithfulness to the clown community here at clown-forum, especially. You're an important, special part of making it all happen - more than you know and more than many. We greatly appreciate that and believe in you.