because art people are awesome and procrastinate in the most fabulous way, i am still getting some cool graduation presents here and there from my art friends. from beth tarkington, i got a book of famous poem called "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann. The last few stanzas are absolutely beautiful and i may even go so far as to say they depict how i feel about life as a whole in one of the most accurate ways i have ever witnessed

"You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars
you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive him to be.

And whatever you labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world."

indeed.