Celebrating Accomplishments

I am presently in Canada to visit with our kids and my sisters and friends. But we came at this particular time primarily to attend our youngest son's university graduation.

Initially, he did not want to go to the convocation. It would be boring, he said, remembering his sister's from a few years ago. The university could mail him his degree; we didn't need to fly over for the ceremony. But I insisted. It's an important achievement, I told him, and we needed to recognize his hard work and cele...