In looking at my beautiful baby girl who could never wear clothes on the beach,
never met an animal (including reptiles)
she didn't love and thought dirt was a badge and paper never had enough space for her essays: I say congrats Morgan.
Job well done.
You turned the lousy high school experience into the lovely collegiate pursuit and graduated with honors.
I love you more and miss you a great deal.
Every day.
and I searched for songs to toast you and there is a list - of course there is a list...
http://voices.yahoo.com/top-30-songs-dedicate-daughter-7942458.html?cat=25
But there was one, that did not show on the list and it is not the standard send off, but the warning type song.
The group is called Daughter, and the song Youth
And I love the part about being the lucky one. Being in this world, across all nations as you want to be, you are lucky. You have had a loving family and enough money and a public education. You have a wonderful heart and common sense and sense... of what is around you and whom. And Whom.
I know that you are struggling with what is next, but not me. I trust you. I trust all that you are. You are amazing and smart and beautiful and strong. You are passionate and love your animals and your garden and mass transit. You supported Obama but not blindly and you care about the implementation and you object to the blind obedience.
You and the others of your generation are the best of the best. You have more education and the luxury of thinking about it. You have the time to grow up and the time to ponder and the time to not judge and the time to rethink.
You have been more places by 17 than I at 55. You have a broader perspective and more tolerance and less judgement than anyone in my generation. You can make jokes with friends that don't insult and know with friends when jokes are not funny.
You know the importance of the online communication and that abrupt words in email can hurt and that Facebook is forever, but not for everyone. Twitter is only 140 bad characters and YouTube videos are now more than 15 minutes.
And yet.
You still want a graduate degree and to compete on horses at the Olympic level and to speak foreign languages You still hold yourself to expectations that I never dreamed of. You are truly amazing.
So here is to you my young daughter. If you go to Cornell, or Portland State or Aachen, they are the ones blessed to have you. They are the ones who should look to you and say why in this world of on line education should we be fortunate enough to have you at our brick and mortor? They should look at you and say here is our future now and later.
If they are smart, they will look at you and see that they will never see all that you and your generation will be, but make it possible for you to be the next, the best, the bold, the edgy, the strong the weak, the timid, the future. Our future.
So the average elephant baby matures at age 70 and that means that now that humans live to 100, youth should last to 25 and adulthood should be 30.
And these are arbitrary numbers as are all things projected. So enjoy your youth. You can at least surpass the elephants.
never met an animal (including reptiles)
Job well done.
You turned the lousy high school experience into the lovely collegiate pursuit and graduated with honors.
I love you more and miss you a great deal.
Every day.
and I searched for songs to toast you and there is a list - of course there is a list...
http://voices.yahoo.com/top-30-songs-dedicate-daughter-7942458.html?cat=25
But there was one, that did not show on the list and it is not the standard send off, but the warning type song.
The group is called Daughter, and the song Youth
And I love the part about being the lucky one. Being in this world, across all nations as you want to be, you are lucky. You have had a loving family and enough money and a public education. You have a wonderful heart and common sense and sense... of what is around you and whom. And Whom.
I know that you are struggling with what is next, but not me. I trust you. I trust all that you are. You are amazing and smart and beautiful and strong. You are passionate and love your animals and your garden and mass transit. You supported Obama but not blindly and you care about the implementation and you object to the blind obedience.
You and the others of your generation are the best of the best. You have more education and the luxury of thinking about it. You have the time to grow up and the time to ponder and the time to not judge and the time to rethink.
You have been more places by 17 than I at 55. You have a broader perspective and more tolerance and less judgement than anyone in my generation. You can make jokes with friends that don't insult and know with friends when jokes are not funny.
You know the importance of the online communication and that abrupt words in email can hurt and that Facebook is forever, but not for everyone. Twitter is only 140 bad characters and YouTube videos are now more than 15 minutes.
And yet.
You still want a graduate degree and to compete on horses at the Olympic level and to speak foreign languages You still hold yourself to expectations that I never dreamed of. You are truly amazing.
So here is to you my young daughter. If you go to Cornell, or Portland State or Aachen, they are the ones blessed to have you. They are the ones who should look to you and say why in this world of on line education should we be fortunate enough to have you at our brick and mortor? They should look at you and say here is our future now and later.
If they are smart, they will look at you and see that they will never see all that you and your generation will be, but make it possible for you to be the next, the best, the bold, the edgy, the strong the weak, the timid, the future. Our future.
So the average elephant baby matures at age 70 and that means that now that humans live to 100, youth should last to 25 and adulthood should be 30.
And these are arbitrary numbers as are all things projected. So enjoy your youth. You can at least surpass the elephants.
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