pomp and all that
Yesterday Ellis and I went to the graduation ceremony for the Seminary Across the Street (from our church). We knew a lot of people graduating this year, so, hey, may as well go. It was a nice ceremony. Small. Handful of doctorates, a bunch of MDivs. We cheered and waved to our friends.
It's funny at these kinds of Reformed World Events the people you run into. For instance, as they were reading names off and distinguished graduates marched across the stage to receive their diplomas, they called off this guy that not only went to college with, but was in the same class, the same major!! It was weird to see him pop up like that! Then there's the cloud of people you know vaguely and you say hello and acknowledge that you know each other, making slight references to the context in which you know each other. It's kind of fun. I managed to mostly escape this while living in NOLA, and the networked world lost some of its sheen. But it's still fun hanging with the peeps!
