I had a nice experience tonight. I've talked before about my son, Tim. Tonight, he graduated from high school. I will not be a great bloody bore (at least not more of one than I usually am) and wax rhapsodic about his qualities, but the bottom line is he's a good kid.
I was just proud to see him do this tonight.
I was mightily moved by the choir's performance of a song called My Home Among the Hills. It will come as not a great surprise to those who follow my technologically retarded adventures to find out that I just looked for a .wav file I once found on the net, and can't find the damn thing.
I have high hopes for Tim's class. The program called for the traditional recessional, and the band started playing the appropriate music. The kids apparently had decided among themselves that that was at least unnecessary (maybe they thought it was stupid), so they didn't march out like good little marionettes, rather they milled around truly enjoying each other's fellowship for the last time. I'm all in favor of kids making even small gestures to control their surroundings when the old way doesn't work for them.
Tomorrow, I'm going with Tim back to my old rescue company for their open house. Perhaps I'll tell him that the walls of the place are insulated with beer bottles, from when we built the place in 1977. Well, it's his place now, I'll just be a visitor, and I'll be interested to look around and see how things have changed.
Mizpah!
R
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http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/studyg/West/htm/myhome.htm
Found this. Thought it was lovely.
Congratulations to your son :o)
congratulations to your son!
Congrats to you and Tim both!
tomorrow i go to graduation at my school. i have 6 kids finishing and i am happy for them, as they had to figh harder than most people to make it out. good luck to tim and i hope he finds something he likes to do.
jilly
Roger, you speak of your son often. Are you married? You never mention a wife.
L
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