GRADUATION DAY






 

GRADUATION DAY

‘The Four Freshmen’ introduced “Graduation Day” in 1956. Later ‘The Beachboys’, ‘The Lettermen’, and others recorded their own versions.  We’ve all experienced “Graduation Day” during our lives and can agree, “It’s a time for joy, a time for tears, a time we’ll treasure through the years. We’ll remember always, graduation day.”

July 19, 2023, was our most recent experience with graduation day as our oldest son Blake, and his sweet wife Michelle, both graduated from BYU Idaho.

To enjoy a graduation day takes years of hard work. Their journey began seven years ago with Pathway Connect and after years of taking online classes while working full time, raising 4 amazing children, and living very busy lives, they attained their goal!

We hope you will take a moment to reflect upon your graduation days and give yourself credit for all your hard work.

At our stage of life, we are beginning to think about a final graduation day. The day will arrive for every one of us when we will, after a lifetime of effort, pass our final exam and hopefully look back with joy and tears and celebrate our final graduation day.

At Alfred Byron Wade’s funeral, a copy of the poem by Linda Ellis, ‘The Dash’ was available to all. Referring to the dash that separates our birth from our death, she penned, “For it matters not how much we own, the cars, the house, the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our Dash.” 

Dennis Roy Stone’s funeral program included the poem, “The Measure of a Man” author unknown. “NOT, how did he die, but how did he live, NOT, what did he gain, but what did he give.”

As our final graduation day draws ever nearer for every one of us, may we reflect upon and determine to make it, a time for Joy not just a time for tears, a time we’ll treasure through eternal years!

Much love,

The Grandparent Chronicles

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