Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Commencement Season

A friend sent me a link to David Foster Wallace's commencement speech given at Kenyon College in 2005.
It's called This Is Water.  Twice in the next two days I found it in my inbox through another friend and a list serv.  Getting something three times warrants attention, so I listened to it while doing dishes.
It is very good. 

When it ended, I saw the many links to commencement speeches and I listened to one more.
This is the one I loved.

Both speeches seem to touch on this Plutarch quote, used by Rowling:

What we achieve inwardly, will change outward reality.  

It is 20 minutes of worthwhile listening.  


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