A Warford Wedding

Yesterday Amanda Warford got married in Florida and I have enjoyed all the pictures that have been sent on Facebook.   She was a beautiful bride and she married a handsome man.  I can tell by looking at the pics of her that she was enchanted by it all.  I appreciate her fine qualities of doing her thing and finding her own niche.  Miss Amanda Panda is now a Mrs.  I am proud of her.

That is the way life is --a time to mourn and a time to rejoice --for us it was in the same week!  Ecclesiastes wrote about the dilemma so long ago.  We take the good and the bad and make hay or make lemonade--as Lemonade Leigh does.   We choose our own focus of the moment.

Yesterday I went to New Harmburg to eat at Hilltop with Bob and Ann Gifford and we talked about the unkind circumstances that surrounded the retirements of people, and how that left all three of them (who retired in the same department) with a bad taste in their mouths.   It was because of the inaction of one person but it permeated and still does their thinking about the University.   I wish people would realize how much their acts destroy the memories for their lifetime of work!   It is so sad!  It is so infuriating!  But it happens all the time!

People who leave the University need to have the same kind of experience of a semi-wedding with people pouring out their gratitude for a job well done and wishing them well in their next phase of their career.  Even a present or two!