Graduation Thoughts

I have several high school graduations in my life this spring– my nephew and a friend's daughter whom I have [image error]
known since she was a few years old. This morning I was thinking what is the most important thing I could say to a graduating senior. At first I thought there was a lot I could say and then I remembered the one thing a high school senior told me last year.

I had spoken at the advanced health classes at my high school– my own teacher Steve Mazzarella had asked me to speak– and he wanted me to talk about my journey and where it is today. Some of that was about my sister's death but also what has happened since then and the many roads I have been on. I found myself sharing that I am divorced among the other life events, something I never thought would happen to me. 

After I was finished with one of the classes, one of the students came up to me and said how much she appreciated that for them, in a time of so much unknown, that I shared that even though so much has happened that might not be positive, I keep going and that I still have a great life.