[Dialogue] Carol and Ellery and all our companions on the journey

Sun Sep 23 12:53:07 PDT 2012

The thing is, as so many of you have said, Carol played Carol to perfection.  Ellery played Ellery to perfection.  With Carol, I always knew I was going to have an RS-1 encounter.  With Ellery there was this way she had of tilting her head, forming sort of a smile, and I knew she was affirming whatever was going on and ready to see if anything concrete was going to emerge.  I am reminded of this poem

Perfection Wasted

And another regrettable thing about death
is the ceasing of your own brand of magic,
which took a whole life to develop and market –
the quips, the witticisms, the slant
adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest
the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched
in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears,
their tears confused with their diamond earrings,
their warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat,
their response and your performance twinned.
The jokes over the phone. The memories
packed in the rapid-access file. The whole act.
Who will do it again? That’s it: no one;
imitators and descendants aren’t the same.

–John Updike
May 7, 1990

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On Sep 23, 2012, at 6:06, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby <dvinasithamby at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I too was hoping to see and talk with Carol and regret that I did not manage to get to Chicago in time.  Gracious, cool headed and a master of indirection - that was Carol. It has been moving to read all these emails about her. We will all miss her.
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> --- On Sun, 9/23/12, DOUGLAS DRUCKENMILLER <dpat23 at msn.com> wrote:
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> From: DOUGLAS DRUCKENMILLER <dpat23 at msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Carol Pierce's death
> To: "dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net" <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>, dialogue at wedgeblade.net
> Cc: carol.walters at yahoo.com
> Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 4:44 AM
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> This is sad and a bit shocking to me. I saw her at Accelerate 77 and she was her usual funny self. So glad to have known her.
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> From: m.george.walters at verizon.net
> To: dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net; dialogue at wedgeblade.net
> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:45:46 -0400
> CC: Carol.walters at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Carol Pierce's death
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> Colleagues and Family;
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> Carol’s decades of constant care for all of us both structural and individual is a legacy that is embedded in our lives, even when memory may forget the details. What a blessing she continues to be as we live from that gift she is to us.
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> Grace and Peace
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> From: dialogue-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David M Dunn
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 12:39 PM
> To: Dialogue' Listserv
> Subject: [Dialogue] Carol Pierce's death
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> Mary Laura asked that her note about Carol's death be sent again to ensure the most inclusive outreach:
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> Carol Pierce passed away a little before noon [Thursday, September 20, 2012] of cardio-pulmonary complications. Aimee Hilliard and Mary Laura Jones were with Carol the entire morning. Carol enjoyed the Accelerate 77 event on Saturday and loved keeping in touch with many of you and keeping track of your lives and activities.
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> There will be a Memorial Service at the ICA GreenRise Center building on a weekend in September or October. I will post the time and date as soon as the family decides the date.
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> Carol will be deeply missed. She was a wise and courageous mentor to many of us. I will miss her wisdom, her humor, her gracious attitude and her demonstration of living a great life in the midst of physical adversity.
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