It’s you I like

Yesterday The Morning News linked to the commencement address given by Fred Rogers (that’s Mister Rogers to most of us) at Dartmouth in 2002. It’s definitely a ray of sunshine to cut through the fog of workaday blahs.

You don’t ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you. When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

So in all that you do, in all of your life, I wish you the strength and the grace to make those choices which will allow you and your neighbor to become the best of whoever you are.

Check it out.