A Stepping Stone
When I graduated from sixth grade in Brooklyn NY I had an autograph book. Once upon a time those things were very popular. It was sort of a bit like signing a yearbook although we had that too. I remember it was white. I asked my mother and father to write on the first pages. Three years later when I graduated from Pershing Junior High School in Brooklyn, I had an official PJHS autograph book. It was blue and gold, had the school emblem on the front and closed with a zipper. I asked my mother and father to write on the first pages again. I think my dad wrote first. He wrote: Only one life will soon be past Only what’s done for Christ will last My mother wrote: Isn't it strange t hat princes and kings, And clowns that caper i n sawdust rings, And common people l ike you and me Are builders for eternity? Each is given a bag of tools, a shapeless mass, A book of rules; And each must make- Ere life is flown- A...