Summary
Greetings, fellow students and fellow members of the faculty. I say fellow because I have been both a student and a teacher. I have sat in a classroom to learn and I have stood in a classroom to teach. I have been there and done that, as the saying goes.
I stand before you a happy man. At least, I am happy today. I am cautious because I remember the story of the king who had a world of happiness one day and a world of misery the next. I am happy because I have excellent health for a man who is 86. I am educated and have a profession. I have served my country. I have no debts and I have sufficient credits to see me through to the end, perhaps. I have a doting daughter, who is a lawyer, and an admiring son, who is a professor. And I have a grandson, who has the makings of a Greek god. I experience remorse, but none crippling of mind. I have regrets, but none that burden me.See the full content of this document
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A Commencement Address: ; How to Be Really Happy
I have loved and lost and loved and had it requited. I have a place where I can climb to a mountaintop and see its peers: one in the west and one in the east. From there I have seen the moon rise and sun set simultaneously. And I have gardens and I cultivate them, preserve the products of them and sit at ...
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