June 3, 2004

• Graduation

  Congratulations to all who are graduating from anything, anywhere and those who love them. (Can you guess who the subject of the photo is?) Nobody in my tiny family is formally graduating in a school sense, but my daughter has completed a successful fourth year at her job in Head Start, my son is completing a successful creation of his daughter’s first baseball season, my grandson is finishing out 7th grade with excellent grades, and my granddaughter is completing 2nd grade with lots of friends and much improved reading skills. And I – this is really good – am matriculating into semi-retirement after 16 years of schooling and 19 years at my current job and plenty of life experience in between. In March I went to four days a week and as of this week it’s 2.5 days a week. You cannot believe how luxurious this feels. Yesterday I breezed back into my gym for a session (after being blindsided by the demolishment of a bridge that stood between me and a 5-minute drive from my house to the gym). The bridge is still down but I’m determined to find a way to surmount this annoyance. Boy, that felt good. I looked around and saw that I was now part of the Not Working in the Middle of the Day Crowd. Today the sun is shining already, it’s going to be good and warm in Portland, Oregon, and I’m going to go pick up my new shoes at the shoe store, get a new dishwasher installed to replace the one the mice ate up the back of, and attend my granddaughter’s almost last baseball game. I don’t wear hats, but if I did I would throw it in the air. Yippee!!!!
  Deep Thought: Someday I would like to make a movie that makes people laugh and makes people cry, and then makes them leave the theater in a quick and orderly manner so that others may come in.
  Today I am grateful for:New beginnings

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