Fourteenth Row, Aisle Seat

Prepared Remarks

A Buff Orpington rooster in midnight-blue doctoral regalia and mortarboard seated on a white folding chair at an outdoor university commencement ceremony, looking back over his shoulder, rolled programme tucked under one wing, rows of empty white chairs on green lawn with a distant podium and floral arrangements in warm sunlit bokeh

The speaker had been advised to mention the future, which struck him as redundant at a ceremony designed entirely around it. He kept his programme rolled and his expression charitable. Some opinions are best expressed by the quality of one's silence.

21 May 2026

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