Honoring the long life of Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) in the early morning hours of a snowy day in late December

Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama

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The snow began falling lightly here after dark on December 24 and fell steadily all day on December 25.  Something prompted me to take a quiet peaceful 2-hour walk in the snow.  Because of wind and rain, I've not been walking much in the past few weeks.  Looking at the forecast, it appears that we will have snow on the ground and unusually cold weather for at least the next 10 days, with a low of 7 degrees predicted for today.

It's December 26 now.  I woke up just after midnight and learned that Desmond Tutu had died and decided to stay up and post something.  

Elders / Spiritual Friends / High School Class of 2021

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. 

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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We, the Sehome class of 2021, are children of uncertainty.  We've spent the last four years of our life with question marks and what ifs clouding our skies, and we've embraced every minute of it.  We navigated life as teenagers in isolation, each of us dealing with our own struggles, searching for signs of hope.  But despite the turbulence, many of us learned, grew, and got to know ourselves.  We accomplished a lot in the midst of uncertainty.  We didn't just survive our four years, we lived every moment.

-- Izzy Jones, Sehome High School student speaker (Bellingham, Washington)