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Dave’s Graduation

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What a busy month. We have travelled many miles and yet, have hardly traveled our distance.

We did three graduations in a couple of weeks, i’ve been sick a couple times, and accomplished a marathon, (okay watched a marathon).

My brother in law Dave’s graduation was this past weekend in Louisville, KY. It was good to see him finish. However, watching him finish was cold. Somehow, even now I don’t trust that it is summer yet. I know it is, because all of electronic devices tell me so, but the temperature has just not been warm enough, long enough for me to trust a season change.

Louisiana should do a pretty good job of confirming this though. It always has. Ellen and I are leaving tomorrow morning for our little road trip. We are gonna drive a little over halfway to Shreveport to land in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She went there once when she was 7. I have never been there. We will check it out for you.

I must say that I am extremely excited about this wedding in particular. I have enjoyed all ten that I have attended in past several months, but for me weddings are always as good as the people that you see there. The bride and groom are always a given… but the people that you haven’t shaken hands with in a long time, mixed with a place you haven’t been in a while always creates a great environment for my enjoyment.

For me this environment will be Louisiana, which I strangely miss. The people will be roommates from my college years. About 8 of us lived together over a few years in New Orleans and Atlanta and then in about a week we spread thousands of miles apart. I remember the last time that we were together, two years ago. We were asking questions like: who will get married first? Is so and so ever gonna get a girlfriend? Now we will sit around a table with almost all of us wearing rings on our fingers. Two years isn’t very long… but it is.