Graduation Day Climb

At the top, with a view of the city in the valley below, I never wanted to come down, I wanted to sit all day and think about what a perfect day it was, what a perfect climb, what a peaceful climb, how I hadn’t climbed for over three months and had so much to catch up with in life, how today was the end of my life and the beginning of my life, the end of 7 years of college, the last day of 2 years of graduate school, the first day I can say I have a master’s degree, the first day I can say that I’m done with school forever!

ah . . . this is why I climb

They don’t teach you how to draw mortar boards in college.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! I hope your new non-school life brings you many more peaceful treetop moments.