Wes and family, While your family has sustained a terrible loss with many cherished items gone forever, you can be thankful there were no injuries or loss of life. Most material things can eventually be replaced or compensated for. As Carl might say and you have attested, you are not diminished. Our thoughts are with you and your family.
Fritz ________________________________ From: wesley s [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Texascavers] A visitation for the death of a home. The Schumachers are one of many caver families that have been affected by the Bastrop fires. The fire razed their home and all surrounding structures. This weekend there will be a visitation to the site for all those who wish to come. Contact Wes at 512-762-3003 if you need additional information. Location: 120 Robin Rd. Bastrop, TX Time: Saturday, September 10 * 10:00am - 2:00pm Contingent upon fire suppression and free access to the land...We will be congregating Saturday, September 10th at 10am in remembrance of a home par excellence, with friends, family and loved ones. We really can't express enough the thanks for the outpouring of love and support we have gotten from all of our friends. Although everyone wants desperately to come out and help with the cleanup/rebuilding process, that simply isn't possible at this time. We must wait on the insurance adjuster to look over the damages and asses things before we begin clean up. Also, it is simply too raw a wound to clean just yet. However we don't want everyone to feel as though there is nothing that can be done. Right now the best thing you can give is your compassion, and we want to allow an opportunity for grieving and condolences to flow freely. And so, we will once more open our home to all, welcoming them to bid farewell to a place and honor the virtue of hospitality. We have always believed that to cherish something is to share it and give it life. Over the years you all gave our home life by visiting and sharing it with us, enriching and bettering it in the process. We want to thank you and offer you a chance to say goodbye to the place. Please bring chairs for sitting and cameras for documenting the site. Feel free to play artistically with the stark forms. The air is dusty and smokey so respirators/face masks might be a good idea, as well as clothes that can get dirty & closed-toed shoes. We will raise a toast to the gods of hearth and home and curse the fates for their cruel indifference. We are wounded but we are not diminished for we have hope and friends and family. Wes~
