Tessa Permar

Salutatorian’s Challenge: Get Lost

With eight days of school left and an unwritten graduation speech looming over my head, I harbored lingering feelings of frustration as I wandered the halls at this year’s Evening of the Arts, our school’s Fine and Performing Arts show. And then came the epiphany. I saw Phoebe Kelleher’s photographs of the people and wildlife of Africa; I saw Lonni Phillips’s captivating portraits; I read Ashley Drake’s witty captions, and I heard Maggie Howard sing her deeply resonant Animal Song.

 

 

 

With eight days of school left and an unwritten graduation speech looming over my head, I harbored lingering feelings of frustration as I wandered the halls at this year’s Evening of the Arts, our school’s Fine and Performing Arts show. And then came the epiphany. I saw Phoebe Kelleher’s photographs of the people and wildlife of Africa; I saw Lonni Phillips’s captivating portraits; I read Ashley Drake’s witty captions, and I heard Maggie Howard sing her deeply resonant Animal Song.

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