Dear Shepherds Friends,
This June, Shepherds completes its 24th year of “Changing Lives...One Student at a Time” with 13 students graduating from our two partner schools.
I’ve been to several graduation events the past two months both for our Shepherds students and their classmates and even a granddaughter’s nursery school, and there’s been a consistent theme to the speeches and messages that I heard but wasn’t expecting. Despite what we remember about the two-plus years of what I refer to as “the blackhole of COVID”, references to the pandemic as an excuse, a lament, or even as a memory, were nearly non-existent!
The themes, the tone, and most impressively the RESULTS were celebratory, congratulatory, optimistic, forward-looking. Kind of like “the old days” when graduation or moving up for younger students was all about handshakes, hugs, and smiles. Human expressions we missed for two years! I thought to myself this is really healthy for students, families, and friends, why stop there…. for everyone!
Please flip through the Shepherds Class of 2023 graduates’ comments, school plans and smile with them too!
And families and mentors, you may deservedly congratulate yourselves, as we say Thank YOU!
Enjoy the remainder of the graduation season and school year. It’s time to catch-up on being human!
Sincerely,
DRM
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