The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

May 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A graduation poem about the significance of the learning that led the degree:

The pride I feel is nothing like the pride

Of one who's made it through the thousand gates

That stand between one's hopes and one's degree.

How much have you learned? And what inside

Equals your diploma, which equates

Grades and credits with reality?

Remember: Your achievement is not only

A tribute to the things that you have done,

Determined as you have been to succeed.

Underneath the sign is still the story,

A tale of what through learning you've become,

The graduate to those who records read,

Even as you sail to shores unknown.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride