A scene like this in the south would be nothing noteworthy. With land to spare and economies that have moved on, it’s not uncommon to find the remnants of old businesses.

It was finding this in suburban Massachusetts that was a little surprising, a place where land values are high and every space gets used or reused as a general rule.

When the steps have to go in, sometimes there’s no time to put in a gate.

He did it. My brother Brian, after several years of picking off a class or two each semester, graduate, summa cum laude, today. He’s worked for the last 25 years, these last few he said were to show his boys that education is a life-long thing.

But this was just as much for him and I could not be happier for him.

Wandering north for a few days, big event on Saturday I would not miss.

Out running errands, angles and rectangles.

A few weeks ago, I got an email from another person on campus asking me to pass along a message to my students. As graduation approached and students start having grad photos made, there was a lot of metallic confetti being tossed about on campus and I was being asked to remind my students of the environmental issues at hand.

I did, but they already knew. Others, though … plastic congrats in the Herty Field fountain.

You find these pockets of light, early and late, on this campus … it’s pretty awesome.