{"id":1974,"date":"2016-06-22T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2016-06-22T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:39:14","slug":"short-speech-to-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"Short speech to seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you.  It\u2019s an honor to be here to talk about these wonderful graduates.  I\u2019ll be brief and I\u2019m only going to share from their own words.   I\u2019ve pulled a few quotes from the activities, projects, assessments, and work you\u2019ve done over the past nine months.   The wisdom and power of each of you shines through.   <\/p>\n<p>All of us are lucky to have spent time with you.  To have learned from you.  To have experienced the immense potential that each of you possess.   Like all human beings, things are going to get rough, and I hope, I hope, I hope that you can remember some of these moments when that happens.   These are your moments, your insights, and your thoughts.   <\/p>\n<p>CR:<br \/>\n\u201cI connected to the world by first thinking what the world needs and then I try and change it.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not an expert on anything for real, but J is, and J is, and T is.\u201d<br \/>\n<What I love about this is both the humility as well as the accurate and thoughtful descriptions of what other people did><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove who you love, it\u2019s pretty simple.\u201d<br \/>\n<C\u2019s constant ability to put people at ease, to be accepting, to care for others was always visible> <\/p>\n<p>ES<br \/>\nI think this bit of writing is good advice not only about project work but about life.  Here it is: <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidelinecast\/25358689972\" title=\"Untitled\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c5.staticflickr.com\/2\/1446\/25358689972_e1dc1dfb06_k.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And our last senior:  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for projects to connect to the outside world because this is a project based school.  I don\u2019t know exactly what to say so I\u2019ll leave this.  Either way, we get real live skills out of the deal.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy I do my best?   I should do my best because it builds good work ethic and someone could look at what I\u2019m doing and give feedback and how I could do better.   It says that I always put forth maximum effort.   It is okay to shut down though when you\u2019re done and when you deserve downtime.   You figure that out by looking at what you have done, what you could do, and look at the number of hours in the day.  Everyone needs sleep.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get more inspired to do the things that you set out to do.   Go back to your previous inspirations, influences, and see what mattered.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>Our friend Aiden likes to say that our lives are conversations with folks important to us: some are with us, some are with us but no longer near us, and others have gone.  Continue those conversations and stay close.  <\/p>\n<p>On behalf of all of us at the WS, thank you for your work, your ideas, your voice, your vision.   You have come so far, we\u2019re all waiting to see what you do next.  <\/p>\n<p>MC  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you. It\u2019s an honor to be here to talk about these wonderful graduates. I\u2019ll be brief and I\u2019m only going to share from their own words. I\u2019ve pulled a few quotes from the activities, projects, assessments, and work you\u2019ve done over the past nine months. The wisdom and power of each of you shines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short speech to seniors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2015_2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-vQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}