On Sunday morning, May 22, a day later marked by a devastating tornado in Joplin, Missouri, I sat in the University of Kansas football stadium watching KU’s Commencement exercises. I was there to share the joy of my wife Kathy’s official graduation with a PhD from KU! As I sat and waiting for the graduates to walk down the hill and enter the stadium, I wrote this poem:

Spring damp under sunny skies

Breeze and clouds forecast storm

Conclusion and commencement

Omega and alpha

A kind of death, a kind of birth

And life is renewed

The future as cloudy as the afternoon sky's potential

The work of school that always seemed like life

Until you are born again

Until you must breathe and eat on your own

Many storms wait

And all the life there is   (Jack F. Price © 2011)

Thanks for continuing to bless me as we journey together.  

--Jack F. Price

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