[Part of an email from Judy after Thumbfest]

Just a little aside that i thought i'd pass along to you: This was one of
those "moments in time" that just happens. A simple thing that probably most
people paid no attention to but will always stick in my mind.

This was during the Hootenanny at the end of Thumbfest. You were singing (and
darn it, i can't remember what song it was) [It was Wagon Wheel - Dennis] but it
was one that a girl, young woman really, near us found very danceable. We were
in a bit of an open area off to the side of the stage. She started to kind of
dance, then couldn't resist really getting into it. She put down whatever she
was holding and danced the song away.

I wish i was a poet and could describe this better......in fact, if i was
capable, i'd write a song. But i'll try to express why this rather typical
scene hit me as song-worthy, although i'm not really sure why. Maybe it was
like the perfect storm. All things came together just right.


This young woman was dressed like a hippie, for lack of a better word. (Shows
my age and my era.) Hippie-ish boots, long skirt, tank top. She had long hair
pulled back in loose pigtails, wrapped in some strange, interesting,
"hippie"-ish way. She might have had some background in dance. She moved
gracefully, twirling and circling with her arms, perfectly to the
music......letting the music move her. She wasn't your typical concert-goer
who decides to get up and dance, making everyone around them want to yell
siddown!!

But the best part of this whole thing was......... the man standing next to her.
haha He was a man probably in his 60s.....he just happened to be standing
there, watching the concert like everyone else. He noticed her moving next to
him when she started to dance and he looked her way. Then looked back at the
stage, then back at her, then at the stage, then back at her. Pretty soon, you
guys were pretty much out of the picture for him. haha He couldn't take his
eyes off her.

This whole episode seemed to be suspended in time, like it went on forever.
When the song was over, she went over to the people she was apparently there
with who were a ways away. He followed her with his eyes, wherever she went.
She eventually came back (with her big, beautiful dog) and i couldn't hear him,
but i could tell he was telling her how much he liked what she did. There's no
big ending to this. He turned to look at the stage and when he looked back,
she was gone.

OK, you're probably wondering why i even bothered telling you this non-story.
I don't know.......i just loved watching the whole thing. It was a statement
on human behavior in so many ways, but what made it so interesting and so cool
and so beautiful was it all occurred without words and without intent. Neither
of them have any idea of this work of art they displayed. Mother Nature in
her purest form. Like i said, i wish i had more poetic ways to describe the
greatness of the simplicity here.

Judy

[Thanks Judy! - Dennis]