Farewell to the Class of 2025

Yet another class graduates from Northstar and yet another occasion to feel excited about the new lives they will begin and, simultaneously, gathering the memories they leave behind. With a smile on our faces when they leave, the next day and forever, we go around with a small pail, sifting through remnants of love and loss and missed conversations and heated arguments, and a thousand things they did not tell us, and we did not hear.

Look up in the dark sky, in your moments of darkness, up the horizon towards due north. Whichever latitude (in the Northern Hemisphere) you are in, look that many degrees up. There you will find a star, unmoving, always present through the seasons. That is the North Star. That is us.