Date: September 21, 2005
Subject: Many thanks from Louisiana

Hello -

My name is Bibbet Robison, and I live in Baton Rouge, La.

I would just like to thank you all for coming to New Orleans when you did.  I gave my husband tickets for the show on August 11th, our 15th wedding anniversary.  It worked out so wonderfully, because King Crimson is one of the first things we found out we had in common.  Plus, we have two young daughters, so going out is rare, and this was going to be so, so amazing.

And we were not let down.  The vibe of just being in the city itself is always healing, and the show was just like liquid energy.  I felt so good coming out of that show.  Our family had been through a very tough year, and things were starting to look up, and the show seemed to reinforce that.  So thank you Adrian, and all the people who work so hard organizing, designing, and running these things.

Thanks to all of you we got to feel that beat of our city one last time before Katrina hit.  In less than one week, everything as we all knew it changed.

And I have no doubt that it will come back.  New Orleanians are stubborn, hard-headed people who love their city feriously. But it will be different.  We'll end up coming to love the different, I'm sure, but I can rest a little easier, and did - all throughout the grief as we listened to the radio as stories of levee breaks, Superdome catastrophes, looters, shootings, deaths - I knew I had gotten a chance to pay homage to my city one last time.  And it gave me comfort.  And a little peace.  I don't know how I would have gotten through this if I hadn't had the chance the blessed opportunity to say goodbye.

Thank you all -

Bibbet Robison