newlygrads...

What with all this snow [a foot!] and lack of work [snow days and christmas vacation days - i still have a job], it feels a lot like I'm still in Hillsdale. As the memories of long tormented nights and petty social frustrations fade, the Ghost of College Past is flourishing. As I read this bit from A Severe Mercy, I couldn't help but think of the best of conversations and company.

...We had decided from the first to reach out to or draw in all we could of the extraordinary richness of the great university round us. In a way all of us at [college] knew, knew as an undercurrent in our minds, that it wouldn't last for ever. Lew and Mary Ann expressed it one night by saying: "This, you know, is a time of taking in - taking in friendship, conversation, gaiety, wisdom, knowledge, beauty, holiness - and later, well, there'll be a time of giving out." Later, when we were scattered about the world. Now we must store up the strength, the riches, all that [college] had given us, to sustain us after...

I hope the giving out is going well for everyone. Sometimes I miss that place and you people more than anything. I'm told that as I get more established into "the life after," that it will fade, but I hope that the memories only get better.

[/end sappiness]