5/14: receiving

...a wonderful email from a graduating student.  I was humbled by her kind words and so grateful that she spent part of her graduation day writing a note to me.  I will miss her in my classes, and I think she's going to be an awesome in her next "chapter," becoming a teacher.  I'm glad that I was able to bracket my self-consciousness enough to write her back this evening and send her my good wishes and congratulations.