{"id":12863,"date":"2016-05-09T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=12863"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:36:42","slug":"thoughts-upon-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/thoughts-upon-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts Upon Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life and Island Times May 8 2016<\/p>\n

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This week Marlow will graduate. Well to be exact, his first grandchild will graduate from college.<\/p>\n

With this event, Marlow will officially become a senior citizen. Reflecting on this, he thought about his four-year long estrangement from this child\u2019s mother \u2013 his first born child.<\/p>\n

He chose to ignore that and focus on the joy of the event and its meaning. He intends to write his granddaughter a keepsake letter. Since she is a millennial, a paper letter would likely get lost in the digital shuffle of her life. Sigh – no heavy stock paper, no monogram letterhead, no fancy inkwell pen writing . . . .<\/p>\n

Should he welcome her to his world? Congratulate her on this accomplishment? Sure, but been there done that many times already.<\/p>\n

So with the date at the top, he will tell her:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 he is grateful that he has this opportunity to let her know what’s in his heart
\n\u00b7 some stories from his life and the lessons learned he learned
\n\u00b7 how to get from the here to the where she wants<\/p>\n

o believe she can
\no keep her faith, be strong and sure
\no keep her heart full of joy
\no keep yearning, learning, trying and smiling
\no keep her love strong and true
\no embrace ways to grow
\no take careful steps and do right
\no take pride in each thing done<\/p>\n

He might include some pictures of her and him he took along the way and will end his letter by telling her that she is and will always be his first.<\/p>\n

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Marlow\u2019s Madeleine in 2010<\/p>\n

Wish him luck!<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2016 From My Isle Seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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