Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order is yet another great lesson reminder, nudge that I received from a listener.

So I'm just going to read you the whole chain of emails between me and a woman named Brenda whose point of view I just

think is invaluable. Every following spring when I hear you talking about the

college application and admissions process I feel compelled to write in. It's been nagging at me, so I'm finally writing.

First, I do appreciate your positive perspective. That simply applying is a notable accomplishment, and that where a student

goes to college is less significant than generally imagined.

It simply won't be the make or break factor in whether a child has a full rich life or not.

I appreciate you putting that out into the world and I'm sure it's helping many people to hear it.

But when I hear all this talk about college, I feel a pang, I feel left out, forgotten,

unconsidered.

Because my child will never go to college.

My 12-year-old son's current school goals include

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