National Honor Society

Tonight, the family went down the street to the high school. We gathered with other parents and students in a room that holds seventy to eighty people. There were forty or so school desks. You know the kind. It is a metal one-piece there the desk surface is attached to the chair. Think of the desks that Jake and Elwood Blues sat in at the Catholic Church to talk to the nun.

My wife and I sat in the back row. There were people standing in the back, including the school principal. There were a few teachers in attendance, but not many.

For the most part, the students ran the meeting. The officers of the local chapter of the National Honor Society handed out awards and inducted the newest members. My daughter was one of those inducted tonight.

There is nothing that can say how proud I am of my daughter. She gets 98% of her intelligence from her mother. She has good work habits. She cares about the world around her. From a fellow student being treated badly by others to the mismanaged war, she understands and does what little she can to make the world a better place.

My daughter has no greater fans in this world than her mother and I. We knew from the day she was born that she was special. She keeps on proving it to us every day. She also writes. She plays the piano. She gets involved in community social action events.

Okay, she is also a sixteen year old. She spends a lot of time on the phone. She does a lot of socializing with friends. Yet we both know that this is not just what her life is. She budgets her time and makes certain what needs to be done gets done.

I know I am bragging and I am getting to a point of being boring. I apologize. It is just that it needs saying. I love my daughter. She is the best.

Thank you for reading. I will write again soon.