livfully's blog

To Start on a Promising Note and One of Respect for All who've served in the armed services and 'paid the ultimate sacrifice of dying in battle or from their wounds', I am lighting a symbolic candle. I find it helpful to remember loved ones who have crossed over at this time collectively as well. Each soul braving their life faces challenges no one can really know. I would add that many hometown heroes may also have had only moments to decide whether to save another at great risk or actual loss of their own precious life.

That happened to be the way our teen son Kaelan Alexander Palmer Paton

Of course the real highlight of the Mount Holyoke Graduation was celebrating with The Class of 2018! Yet having the experience for a couple of hours of being a hUge field house filled with People happily sitting in (and sometimes cheering from ) thousands of white plastic chairs.

We heard from the new Mount Holyoke President Sonya Stephens, recipients of honorary degrees who really wanted to Do Something to improve the world of education (teaching teachers) and reforming agencies was very moving, as was hearing from the renaissance woman and mother of five (within 6 years) who 'got a life'