GRADUAT ION
we can’t climb any higher, until we can’t spit any further, until we can’t tell any more stories because the sunrise is here and it’s time to hike. All we need is our dreams and each other, and then gravity can’t touch us at all. Today we are being given—drum roll please—a diploma.
Here, says OES, is a ticket to anywhere. Here is a passport to everywhere. Here is a first class ticket to a career in fill-in-the-blank. For me to try to tell you what to do with your passport to
everywhere would be like me trying to tell you your favorite f lavor of gelato. I might get it right, but I just as easily might pick pistachio. No, I cannot tell you what to do with your ticket to fill-in-the-blank. You are beautiful people and have dreams of your own.
I simply want you to know that I believe in you. I want
you to know that we will be here for each other even when we cannot see each other every morning. I want you to know that if you are having a hard day, you can call me and I will speak in various accents for you. I know that I will always be able to return to this group for inspiration like a salmon swimming upstream to its ancestral homeland. Members of the Class of 2010, this is it. We are teetering
on the edge of a cliff, we are standing at the edge of a jungle, we are poised on the high dive, and there is only one thing left thing to do now and you know what it is. So, to my class, good luck. I commend you, I
salute you, and I wish you safe travels to wherever your passport to everywhere may take you.
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