Last Thursday, Carrie graduated from The Harvard School of Education. I love a good graduation with speeches, gowns, caps and all that potential for good works in the future. At the Ed School it was inspiring to sit with a tent full of graduates who in many varied ways will surely make their own unique mark on the world. It was a great day. Congratulations, Carrie.
Here is the poem that set the tone for the Dean's speech. I always love a good, short, inspirational poem. Leave it to the author, Emily Dickinson, who led a sheltered life to have such wisdom.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets through.
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets through.
4 comments:
Congratulations to Carrie! She looks beautiful decked out in her Harvard red....oops: crimson. Great honor and achievement!
Love the poem....ring the bells!
Are you sure "Ring the bells ....." wasn't written by Leonard Cohen? I know he wrote them in his song "The Anthem" I think it is. Just checking.....
I am trying to figure this out.
I wonder if he took Emily D's poem as
inspiration.
He did write a lovely anthem with these
lyrics.
Elizabeth Edwards had it tacked up by her desk.
Congrats to Carrie from Hong Kong! What a happy occasion to add another educator to the clan.
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