Tag: graduation
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Best of: A Graduation Reflection
Last Sunday, The Stony Brook School honored the class of 2020 with a parade up Chapman Parkway. Graduates and their families rode in decorated cars while faculty and staff lined the sidewalks, cheering and clapping for each graduate. More than once, tears threatened to spill down my face while a swirl of emotions ran through…
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It’s May! And other news…
Hello, Readers, May is here! And with its arrival, I know the school year is almost over. The next few weeks are filled with “lasts”—the last class, the last assembly, the last dorm event. It’s a bittersweet time of year. Since my last post, winter’s dormancy has fled. Looking out my living room window, I…
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See I am Doing a New Thing: A Graduation Reflection
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19 It’s that time of year again—graduation season. Last weekend, I attended the graduation of some dear former students in Waco, Texas.When I first started…
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Post-Graduation Thoughts
Prior to Jake’s graduation, I wrote about all the “lasts” the week held. I attempted to articulate some of the thoughts I was experiencing as a mom of a soon-to-be high school graduate. Now, three weeks have passed. Graduation is over, the Open House a memory, and some more thoughts have bubbled to the surface.…
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Gecko-Lover to Graduate
It is a week of “lasts” in our household. On Saturday, Jacob will graduate from The Stony Brook School. Already some of the “lasts” have begun. Last week the four, five and six year seniors were recognized in a special service. Students who have attended the school since seventh grade are considered “six year seniors.”…
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Life at Stony Brook–the end of our first year
Okay, I know I am overdue for a post (especially since I started a three-week creation series with a giveaway–see Enjoying and Observing Creation, Week 1), but please accept my apologies as I digress for this week and write about the events of the past five days. Next week I will resume the creation series…
Alicia Brummeler 