Aspire toward the Highest

THE GRADUATION CEREMONY at Walden
University is a moving experience. It is not at
all unusual to hear some child cry out, “Way
to go grandma!”
At one such ceremony, Lovely Thorton, a
black woman married to an Air Force Chaplin
in Germany, was selected to give the commencement
address. She had earned the right
by having the best Ph.D. dissertation that year.
A hush fell over the crowd as Lovely
Thorton approached the podium.
She began with a poem.
No child, ain’t no time for school or play,
Got to pick s...