Day 12.150: Exile #2's Sunday Column #251

Exile #2 writes...

While Exile #1 headed to New Hampshire to provides some guitar playing services,

Editor's note: at a gathering of United Methodist clergy and lay-leaders on Pentecost Sunday,
expect many items of red clothing

the rest of us popped to our neighbors’ to celebrate their oldest daughter’s graduation. It was nice to meet a few new neighbors, and it was a helpful peek into what’s to come! High school graduation is definitely not the understated event that it was when I finished high school in the UK. There are days of celebrations, rounded off with the 3 hour ceremony itself. It sounds like we have to hope it will be a dry enough day that we can be outside but a cool enough day that the graduates don’t melt under their caps and gowns.