Summa Cum Laude
We’re sitting on our balcony at the Amaya Reef hotel in Hikkaduwa. I will warn you that the hotel’s website is a superb example of the manipulative power of photography, but the pool is really that pretty.
I think that it’s time to write a blog, so I grab Liz’s BlackBerry and ask her what the title of this blog should be.
“What about ‘Rule of Four?’” I suggest idly. She’s reading the Caldwell and Thomason book now after blazing through four other books during the past week and half. We did have a lot of down time in our van traveling among ruins and knee-and-calf-muscle-shattering mountains so our literary thirst were more than quenched.
“I miss college,” she says with a start. The Rule of Four takes place wholly within the environs of Princeton University so it’s bound to trigger nostalgia for those good ol’ Animal House days.
“I should have tried harder,” she adds.
“Me too,” I say. “I shouldn’t have gotten that C in Technical Writing.”
“Screw you. You graduated with high honors.”
“Highest honors,” I remind her. Then I tell her I will write exactly this exchange for the blog.
After she admonishes me for proclaiming her self-admonishing words to the world, she returns to her book.
Literature becomes reality and I think how great it is that we’re sitting together in a balcony overlooking the Indian Ocean, ready to greet the New Year (by the Christian reckoning; the Sinhalese and Tamil people celebrate theirs in April) in about seven hours.
No matter where you are in the world, I hope you are all doing the same, marking this occasion with the people you care most about. As long as that’s true, you’re at home.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Kidlets!!!
Love you both to pieces!
Hey, Adam, once again you enlighten our day, informing as to the cultural nuances (the Roman year started in March as I recall), and capturing the mood–your mood–for us to share. I’m so glad you and Liz are together today and we send our best wishes for a healthy new year, full of continued mind-expanding adventures (actually not much need to “wish” that since you are well on your way). We all read your poignant closing words and are really looking forward to seeing you during your respite in January!!
Love, Uncle Jim and from Aunt Peggy, Ben and Harrison
Beautiful sentiments, beautifully written. Love you both.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!. See you both soon.
love, mom
How perfectly you two understand what is most important in all our lives. We echo allthe replies from family and friendsBe Healthy and wealthy and Wisein the new year and always. Seeyou at Harrison’s Bar Mitsva weekend.
Loveand stuffG&G
Greetings Adam and Liz,
I love your sibling relationship! We spent the past week in Hawaii as a family and one of the best parts for me was to watch Michele and Tova happily spend time together instead of fighting over clothes or whatever. It is one of the greatest joys, I think, for a parent to witness the deepening relationship between their children. You two have always led the way in that.
Enjoy the rest of your trip, and thanks so much for sharing it with us.
Happy and healthy New Year.
Love,
Debbie
ill have you know that if i DID graduate from college, i’d have graduated with summa cum laude too, so dont go throwing around that highfalutin tone, mister.
got your postcard the other day. it was quite the lovely, and i am still patiently awaiting by the door for a small brown boy to come up and flick my adams apple.
ok, so in case nobody has told you lately, YOU ROCK! yep, you sure do…both of youse…
love you and loved your new year insight.
a safe healthy, happy new year to you and see you soon
all you missed here was a sad football game for your parents and gparents,
and an excellent selection of Twilight ZOne Marathon episodes for the new year.
love
auntie nan