Graham Harwood

Among all those initials in his senior shout-out, I see my name, spelt out whole, "Hannah." And then the next four words:

few deserve success more.

Was this for me? If it was, then I cannot close my mouth, for Graham said something so remarkable, so eloquent, in so few words that I don't even deserve to read. It is as if each word accounts for each one of the four years of high school: few (I was one of the few), deserve (I wanted to earn something), success (my lesson in failing successfully), more (I had more than I needed). Ah Graham. I did not know he regarded me so highly. I will remember this. I will remember to thank him for this.

Dr. Seuss

"Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss

I was flipping through the year book and this is the first sentence Alexa had written for her senior shout-out. (What am I going to do every morning without my breakfast buddy to take out the raisins from our Raisin Bran?) 

What Dr. Seuss (our Dartmouth alum!) said is so true. I am going to be who I am, and say what I feel, because I don't mind and I would like to matter.