So here we are. Graduating seniors of 2013.
I look around at you all and I think about the last four years, the last three years, two years, last year we have spent together. I see artists, musicians, scientists, mathematicians, writers, debaters, comedians, actors, dancers, chefs, philosophers. Thinkers.
You all have an innate gift for sowing compassion in others, cultivating it within yourself. I see 46 individuals who have a powerful ability to create community and fellowship amongst those around them.
I look around and I see love.
Graduation sentiment often focuses on the future. Looking forwards. But let your ability to be present through the sum of your passions change the world around you. It has a profound effect, reminding me to remain in the present, and I know that has influenced your peers as well.
Our lives are defined by our daily acts of love—manifested in your service, your leadership, and your passions. Your collective ability to love and be loved in the most humble and pure and true sense of the word has the power to change the people around you, wherever you are.
Do everything in love.
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Basic phonetic Tibetan notes/phrases written in my India journal when two monks and their friend traded us stories and languages.
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This summer, my sister will be a researcher of the Early Novels Database (END), an undergraduate project hosted at the University of Pennsylvania. They work on cataloguing the metadata of early British and American novels published between 1660 and 1830 located at Penn’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Library Company, and the Bryn Mawr Library. She’s currently focusing on data visualization to find particular trends in the information—characters, structure, narrative forms, adjectives used, publishers, etc.
She needed some new photos.
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Took down the Beasely show.
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Closing Graduation Speech
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roseederoi asked: Where are you going to college?
Haverford College, a small liberal arts college right outside of Philadelphia. I’m still undecided as to what I’ll be studying, but I’m thinking some combination of philosophy, religion, sociology, film/photography. We’ll see!
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Setting up for my exhibition in Finale at NAU’s Beasely Gallery (June 3rd - 9th). The reception is the 6th, from 5-7pm. A combination of my photography from Northern India and poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke, this series portrays the common humanity that exists among us—regardless of language, culture, or background.
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Audrey
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A very shaky night experiment with gifs. Perhaps a precursor to some time-lapse stuff over the summer?
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The Wupatki pueblo at night
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How marvelous it is
to see the world again
for the very first time.
The dirt for its solitude, intimacy,
roots outspread, within,
grasping for something more.
To see and hear and smell and touch life
not in submission
but for the illogical, irrational
state of being.Why, then,
do we turn our backs,
seeking contentment
elsewhere,
rushing doubtfully away from
our own quietness?The heart that calls us back
to each other,
to wonder at the love
beneath our own feet. -
Audrey
