Day 3 - 121 -- First Farewell of the Weekend

After a mundane afternoon, we gathered on campus for the farewell ceremony for tomorrow's graduating students. A new tradition began tonight, as we processed from the chapel to the reception hall -- a long line of gowned students and faculty winding across campus led by candle light. It was quite lovely to see. There will be many times in the next 36 hours when this group will meet, celebrate, say goodbye, and laugh and cry together.  It is an ending and a beginning that bring myriad emotions. I understand those emotions. Seeing it all takes me back to the time I was where they are now -- leaving to go to the next step in the career and life. It is exciting, frightening and definitely worrisome when the support group we have grown to lean on will no longer be right beside us. I've thought much this week about how much easier it will be for them to keep in touch than it was in the dark ages when I first graduated. Technology has seen to that. So, maybe they won't be as alone as they fear right now.

A song that says goodbye while understanding the feelings that go along with this was my choice for today. Enjoy!

Graduation (friends forever) -- Vitamin C