A graduation is a commencement, a beginning. Whenever we leave something behind, whether it’s preschool, college or a long-term job, both anxiety and excitement are pretty much inevitable. However we may feel about it, these points of moving on arise over and over again.
What commencement are you experiencing or looking toward?
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
What sort of a life do you imagine might be waiting for you if you let go of the life you planned?
To jump out of a plane is daring, but to jump out of a plane without a parachute is just stupid.
What sort of a parachute has allowed you to do something risky?
Everyone knows that inevitably socks disappear in the dryer, leaving you with unmatched, solo socks. The solution must be to hang your socks out in pairs, without ever exposing them to the unfathomable vortex that is the dryer.
What extraordinary steps do you take to hold on to something you are unwilling to lose?
The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses:
who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night
and when the clock counts.
They say: We were young. We have died.
Remember us. …
They say: Whether our lives and our deaths were for
peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say,
it is you who must say this.
We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
We were young, they say. We have died; remember us.
–Archibald MacLeish
Who do you remember this Memorial Day? What do you do in their memory?
