The Chattering Crow: gaudeamus igitur!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

gaudeamus igitur!

Oh frabjous day! Last week we had two commencement days. Sam received his Masters in Education and Anne graduated from Herriman High (their first senior class). It was joyous all around.

Charles and Erica flew Micky out from California for Anne's graduation and WAS SHE EVER SURPRISED. I was glad to be an onlooker. Much hugging and crying.

We took them for Belgian waffles yesterday morning and then went up to Kingsbury Hall to see Plummer family accomplishments on the second floor. The old folks luff luff luff the young folks.

I have been stressing about the WIFYR conference next week at Waterford School. It is in my nature to wait until the last minute to prepare everything.

Some habits never change.

I will pull the whole thing out of my behind (oooh).

4 comments:

SarahJune 9, 2011 at 2:12 PM
Hooray for Plummer family accomplishments, young and old, old and new!

I wish I could be there to see what comes out of your... you know.
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JacquelineJune 10, 2011 at 2:09 PM
Congratulations all around!
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Bonnie WhiteJune 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Yes indeed congratulations. And about that conference, just know that some of the attendees are floundering and wondering what on God's earth made them even think they could attend.
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luluJune 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM
Yay for the Plummers! I've sat here writing about a dozen different comments, put have decided to write nothing. Lame...I know.
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"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." Victor Hugo
"I don't want the damned sportsmanship award."
"Jesus glows in the dark like my pajama tops" George Plummer, age 4
"Our parents are crazy as hell." Sam Plummer, 2016
"Grandma, your hands are old." Sally Plummer, age 3.
"Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." Wendell Berry
"Sitting is the new smoking is the new bullshit." Tom Plummer, 2014
"Never move an old tree." Dutch saying.
"I am universally offensive." Dede Plummer, 2014
"I don't want to see any movie with the word 'guys" in the title." Tom Plummer, 2013.
"Please bless Grandma. And Grandpa. That they can have a nice time. In their apartment." Louis Plummer, age 4.
“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.” George Saunders
"Hello, my name is Tom, and I'll be your spouse this evening." Tom Plummer, 2012
Me: " Jesus knows EVERYTHING." Hank (10), "Yeah? How many fingers am I holding up?"
"In my end is my beginning." T.S. Eliot
"Nothing has prepared her for the wide, grey simplicity of sadness and for the knowledge that this is what the rest of her life will be like." Carol Shields
"My life has been a fog, but the only light, the only clarity-- has come from the simplicity of putting permanent ink on paper." Rian Plummer, age 17.
"When I die I'm leaving my body to science fiction." Steven Wright
"Does anybody need to go poopies?" Louis Plummer, age 3
"I grew up in the wide and spacious building." Charles Plummer, 2011
"Pride is a such a useless handicap." Christina Putney
"You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Don't retire; retread your tires." Lucy Jarvis
"Grandma is never boring." Mira Plummer, age 8
"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien
"The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want." Iyanla Vanzant
"Being in your body is a good place to be." Beatrix Ost
"I'm the world's oldest teenager." Iris Apfel, age 89