In our community alone there are probably close to a thousand graduates from local high schools each year.  They have just completed on the average thirteen years of school.  Many of the attentive one can share facts and figures from the last few months of schooling.  Some will have developed a skill or two that will support them in a chosen profession.  Many will have discovered some lifelong interests and even more will have found a friend or two to last a life time. 

Always willing to help people with their personal advancement I thought nothing of it and said yes I would do it.

On the shores of beautiful Kootenay Lake in Nelson.

This has been a road trip into my heart.  In the journey toward a changed life and a changed world, I constantly reach out for new levels of understanding. 

I am not unique, not even in my ongoing commitment to a greater level of understanding.  It is exactly because I am not unique that I continue to have such hope for this world.