Stories and Songs for the Road

“For more than a decade we have watched, nudged, even carried a few seniors through graduation. Each year, around March sometime, we would often find ourselves drinking a coffee in the snack shop and talking about the passage of time. “You know,” we would inevitably say, “we ought to do an evening of stories and songs for graduating seniors.” It took ten years, but here it is, our first effort.

We envisioned this as sort of a pre-graduation celebration, an evening of informal fun more intimate than the traditional ceremonies, with maybe a last little lesson about life’s journey stuck somewhere in the middle…To the Seniors of 2002, those who preceded them and those who will follow, never forget the easy words of the Poet of old, “we have miles to go before we sleep.” So grab a hand, share a story, and walk humbly, but by all means, keep walking.”

— Herm Weaver and John Paul Lederach, April 11, 2002