To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

June 22, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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A graduation and thank-you poem to a teacher:

To give as you have given takes a love

Hallowed by a special kind of grace.

After all, the lives we will embrace,

Now are shaped by those that our hearts move.

Kids need the kind of leader you have been.

Your efforts don't come close to the real sum:

On your life we build what we become,

Undertaking only what we've seen.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

6/20: Hail to the Graduate

6/21: To My Sister on her Graduation

6/22: To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love