Going Home.

It's time, thank goodness, for most students to go home. Home from Planet College to your local version of Planet Earth. What's your style for going home? Throw your stuff in a trash bag and hop in your friend's Tacoma? However you get there when you get there you will be a little different from last time. A little older, a little more experienced possibly? Meanwhile, home may be the same as always. Home doesn't change much, at least not as fast as you have been changing. That is why there is no place like it. There is nothing so comforting as the familiar. Hopefully that is home for you.

Now, it may be that the changes which have been occurring nationwide, during the past year especially, may have changed your neighborhood too. Neighbors may have moved, their homes lost. Folks may have lost jobs. Christmas, for those who celebrate traditionally, may be reduced. Celebrations may be fewer, smaller and more sober. This is change.

On Planet Earth, back at home, as on Planet College, change happens. This year you may notice that simple fact more clearly when you get home for the holidays. Yes, change happens and not always the way we want it. However it has happened and where ever it has happened, Happy Holidays from Planet College.