Hoping that Girl Who Stopped to Read . . .

. . . the notes and clippings posted on my door would remain

• as curious,
• as informed,
  
• as bold to inquire of older people,
  
• as hopeful in the face of stiflingly narrow puritanical politics (though to apply the name puritanical to what's going on nowadays is an insult to the learned, logical, good--though, yes, narrow in their own ways--people who suffered under their own oppressions 350 years ago),
• and as joyous forever

as when she laughed aloud at Boondocks and Dilbert flapping in the institutional air-flow of that university hallway last December.