Wow. Cleaning out the garage, Saturday, provided an opportunity to relish in seldom listened to Saturday NPR programming. Bob Edwards did a round up of the best graduation speeches ever. You'll be glad you took the time to listen to this. Turn it on while cooking dinner, folding laundry. Make the time. It's not just for graduating students. From David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College commencement.

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In his Kenyon College commencement address, he describes the human condition of daily crises and chronic disillusionment and warns against solipsism,^[29] invoking compassion, mindfulness, and existentialism:^[30]

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day…. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't…. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness.

[…]“If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.”

― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Yummy. And here's another: "You are Not Special:" David McCullough, Wesley College, 2012.

On the home front, I've been having deja vu flashbacks as my daughter, about to turn 20 next month, graduated from high school this time last year.