Good writer. Interesting essay, for a "stream of consciousness" piece he stays with his topics for quite a while.

Don't know what it had to do with commencement. Might have felt a bit cheated if it were mine, but then, remembering back, I don't remember. Don't think there was a lot of remembering going on then.

He clearly had to have prepared it, I mean, gave it some thought, wrote it. Seems a bit "offtopic", "flame", "current events", "community" and definitely "spacey".

And, it took a bit of courage to deliver it if he hung around after it. Might have taken a bit of "liquid courage" to do that.

Arf