The dobie house is filled with a sense of oldness. Maybe a better word is history. I can just feel the spirits of the past resonating in this house. It is wierd to think that the house where Dobie lived for so long is now basically an office building. I was suprised to see the framed pictures of people like Tim Obrien and Sandra Cisneros. I can just imagine them at the Piasano ranch writing and exploring the open spaces of Texas. I thought that the statue of the mustangs was extremely impressive. I mean it towered above me and really made me feel the grandeur of the subject it protrayed. One could see the faces of the mustangs looking just as fierce as the Man-Eating mares of mythology, but also looking regal and unnatainable. I think that what Dobie said about the mustangs is true. " No one who concieves him as only a potential servant can apprehend the mustang. The true conciever must be a true lover of freedom to all life." The second statue we saw was the freedom mare. While I liked this statue I thought it was one of the more uninteresting ones. I did like that the statue was put up for the falling of the berlin wall, but It wasn't my favorite one. I really liked the Longhorn statue. Before, I always kinda wondered why our mascot was a big cow, but after reading dobie's "the longhorn" and seeing the staute I got a sense of the stubborness and gentleness that the longhorn embodies. Like Sancho, we are always looking back here to Texas as our one true home. The only statue that contained people was called "Generations" I really liked the symbolism that this statue represented. The bringing together of different generations in an exchange of knowledge, that is what the statue represents. It is touching because all of us here at the university are at this stage in our life, whether as a student or a professor, we have been shoved together so that an interchange of knowledge can take place.