The last week in June is a big one for
celebrations like last night's send off for high school graduates filled with all the mixed emotions of joy, pride, and realization of the potential of a new chapter that began as they flipped their tassels. Those
celebrating will not remember the words of any of the speeches, but they will remember how they felt nervous and happy and unsure and excited by the future as they
celebrated. I focused, as best as I could, on that joyous
celebration while acknowledging the potential for our world standing on those risers!
My mind did wander, at one point to a similar late June evening, just three years ago when the graduate's sister stood on those same risers and to that time years ago when my daughter graduated from high school in a similar ceremony where friends also gathered to
celebrate their stories that were really just beginning. I also remembered watching the graduate's mother
celebrate her high school graduation and remembered the illicit while sandals I wore to my own, long ago, while acknowledging the
Lion King, Circle of Life moment!
Celebrate
The chapters
Along the journey.
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