Finally, I come to my last quote. (Often it is something that was said by another participant in their closing comments just a few minutes prior to me speaking.) I close my iPad or the notebook from which I’m reading. I pause. I look up. I let the moment hang. And then I say some version of “I pronounce this Lab …”—then I clap: an exit line—“closed.” I mark it. I end it. And they are released. And usually everyone starts clapping.
