May 02, 2005
Nostalgia in brief
Tonight was the senior "Honors" banquet. I imagine and hope that others who were there will be blogging about it, but I just wanted to post a quick reflection. As I looked around the table, I realized just how much I treasure the relationships, the friendships, and the ... love, I guess ... that we share. I realized that I knew each person around the table ... that I was glad that they'd come to LeTourneau. That I respected and admired each of them ... and that I was so very thankful to have been a part of an Honors program with them in it. Yet it's over. I was struck by a wave of regret - regret for the fact that it was finished, and that I barely knew them. Regret for all the missed friendships, squandered opportunities, and what I was losing. I'm losing a comraderie that was so very precious ... yet I barely recognized it. I'm so grateful that I wrote my eulogies ... yet there were so many more. Anna Ross, Ardith Hoyt, Anna Olson, Colin Reed, Ashleah Armstrong, Bri Johnson ... good people I wish I knew better. Good people who deserved their own entries, their own praise, for the blessing they've been to me and the outstanding qualities I see in them. Dear God, I'm going to miss this school and these people. I'm going to miss them.
