Balancing Act Printthe story How many Froot Loops can you stack on top of one another before they topple over? How tall would someones tower have to be for you to find yourself impressed? We often relish the opportunity to declare how many activities were balancing. Like a status symbol, our busyness signals our importance. We could pretend the pink ones are work responsibilities, the yellow ones are family and household chores, maybe the orange ones are volunteer

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Are you excited

Some of you are old enough to remember the Atari video game system

Being unimpressed by the next step is not the same as not knowing what it is

But you know what

It also reminds us that providence doesn’t usually come all at once in bunches

Officially

we didn’t have to leave home

Because the reward is still the same and our efforts still matter

and a diploma is less valuable than it’s ever been

the critics and the so-called "realists

and I smiled as I wondered how magnificent it must be