So who knew? After three years in Miami and then in DC, we celebrated Tom's graduation from Georgetown Law School. A night out at the 930 Club downtown, watching his boyhood friend, Mick Coogan (of Dance Party), perform. Perhaps not quite in Tom's honor, but we could make it seem that way.
Then a gala dinner dance at the National Building Museum, the old Pension Building, that was the site of Lincoln's second inaugural dinner dance. I had always thought this as one of the great, sometimes overlooked, buildings in Washington. And here we were, dining and dancing and carrying on...as folks, I guess, had been doing for a long time.
Then a formal awarding of degrees and diplomas...only a blurred photo of Tom (really have to learn how to set my camera better to capture these fleeting moments in time, but perhaps also blurring may be appropriate to life that moves so quickly. And then hors d'oeuvres and a final party. Congratulations, Tom. Who knew? I guess you did.
