Hi Lynne,
Thanks for starting this thread, and thanks for being willing to go "over the top." I guess if you go over the top, I can too, right?
Watching Ken all last weekend (I went to every event) was a glorious, expansive, yet excruciating experience for me. Generosity was the word that kept coming into my mind, watching Ken put his physical body through I-can't-imagine-what-kind-of-pain in order to give himself to those of us in the audience.
And that audience wasn't all New Yorkers. We had people who'd flown in from California and driven from closer states as well. And the audience LOVED Ken. The standing ovation he received Sunday afternoon at Bank Street was the longest one I've ever heard in my life. I felt as though we were literally trying not only to honor Ken, but to give something of ourselves back to him. There was just this great welling up of love that naturally filled the room and sought to embrace Ken. And I really felt like he took that love from us in. That meant a lot to me.
Robin