Ode to My Jubilee

My Jubilee graduated from

Seattle Pacific University

Cum Laude

University Scholar

Ecology, BS

Zinza Edward Scholarship-

Shaw/Blakley Island Scholarship

I.AM.SO.PROUD

Jubilee started off as a music therapy major.

She stuck with it for one year,

deciding it just wasn't for her.

Changing majors is not for wimps.

She spent the next year searching for direction.

The problem with Jubilee is she's interested in so many things!

But her one big love won out,

Nature

plants, animals

the earth,

biology,

creation,

and how it all works together.

She jumped into her ecology classes like she does everything,

wholeheartedly.

Jubilee accomplished in two years what most people do in four!

And not only that, 

 she continued her University Scholar classes too.

"U Scholars is like a mini-masters degree" a friend told me.

And so she wrote a thesis about the research she did with deer on Blakley Island.

This weekend of celebrations:

of Ivy Cutting

 U Scholars open house,

Baccalaureate

and finally commencement 

was perfect.

We soaked in every second of joy,

wise words

meeting of professors,

hugs of friends,

music sung,

and love shared,

fully present and aware

of the beauty,

simplicity 

and reverence

of what she accomplished.

Jubilee is an amazing woman

with multitudes of gifts

and talents.

I don't know what the future holds for her.

But I do know,

I love her.

She is extraordinary.

I am so grateful God gave her to me

on April 10, 1992.