The lasts
My daughter is a senior in high school. Now that she’s officially got herself into college (Vassar) and she, her father, her brother, and I know that she’ll be going away, we’ve begun the parade of lasts—her last home high school swim meet, her last YMCA state swim meet, her last biggest/shortest concert (a concert that involves all of the strings students in the Waterville school system), etc.
The rest of the school year leading up to graduation will be full of lasts, some more significant than others. But there will be plenty of them.
I’ve been thinking a lot about lasts. During a recent clergy breakfast, a colleague was wondering about lasts in relationship to the church that she serves. Is this the last few months that she will be with them? Is this the last year that they will be able to exist as a church?
