Avoid a "life of quiet desperation," kids... I'm rooting for you.

It's a grey and damp start to the day, and most of what I want to do today requires being outside. I may have to pivot a lot. 

We need to get Holly signed up for swimming lessons, so we'll be off to Lisbon around 10ish. I promised her a lunch date and playing at the playground. Lunch can/will happen, but the playground idea, not so much. I wish there was a child-friendly movie playing at Jax, but there is not. We'll work on it. I just hope she is not too upset if it rains. And it sure looks like rain. 

I want to get my garden plants in the dirt, but that is not as likely. Maybe tomorrow after graduation. I sure hope so. This growing season is getting off to a slowish start, partly because I have not been home, and partly weather conditions. 

All I really want to do, if I am to be honest, is to sit in my pjs and drink coffee. I'm tired. It's been a very busy week, and I've been out every evening. Today was/is to be a less-busy day, but we'll see about that. Tomorrow will be busy, to be sure. Church, groceries, graduation. Then, quite likely, garden stuff. At least I do not have papers to grade!

I am worried/concerned about this year's graduates-- not just the ones I know personally-- because there is so much uncertainty. I hope they go forth in faith and boldly claim a space for themselves. I don't want the national and world issues to wear them down so young. We've done what we could to help them build a toolkit for their future, but I wonder if they don't really have what they will need: critical thinking skills, bravado, and creative problem solving. All the academic skills, taken separately, won't help them as much as the ability to be creative and daring. I see too much passivity in them, whether it's because they don't care, or they don't see a huge point in caring much. That worries me the most. But some do-- and those young people will be the ones to march out there and get things done, regardless of the path they take. College is not an immediate goal for a lot of them now, mainly because of cost. Or they can't see why it matters, given their personal goals or situations. Or they have had enough of classroom time, and they want to figure some stuff out. All valid reasons. But I hope they don't give in to a "life of quiet desperation" (Thoreau). 

Blessings on all of them, where-ever they choose to go. I'm rooting for them.

C