February 18, 2005
Forthcoming Eulogies
I've got an idea and I want to put it out there to see what you all think.
I'm graduating soon. No surprise to anyone here. And before I graduate, there are a number of people I want to eulogize. I want to say how much they've meant to me over the last four years, how much I admire them, and essentially praise and thank them for the blessing they've been to me over the last four years. What I'm still puzzling over is exactly how to go about doing this. I will write something for all of these people, but I have a few options in about how I go about doing this. I guess my best (current) plan is to write the eulogy and give the particular person three options:
- Allow me to publish the eulogy, in which case I'll blog it
- Keep the eulogy private; I'll send them a copy but won't share it with anyone else.
- Keep the eulogy private; save a copy on my computer but never let it see the light of day.
What do you all think? Be careful; this is not an academic question for many of you; you're on the list :-)! The following are the people on the list as I can think of them off-hand, and in no particular order:
After second thoughts, I decided to remove the list.
Not all of these people know me really well; some hardly at all. And there are some I'll probably kick myself for forgetting. Some of these people I'll probably mention only briefly, because I haven't had much of a chance to get to know them. But all of these people are people I admire and have a certain affection for. I don't want to leave without them knowing, in some form or another, that I have been blessed by them and want to acknowledge and thank them for that.
Even though I'm sure I'm leaving people off the list who deserve to be on it, there are still a lot of people there (at least, it looks that way to me) and I probably won't get around to all of them. At the moment, I imagine my procedure will go something like this: I'll write the eulogy. If it's long enough to matter very much, I'll send it to the person (if possible; it will not be possible in every case) first and ask their permission to post it. Then I'll post it. Thoughts, anyone?
