Very excellent to get to celebrate Joe Boone's retirement today - a celebration that had to be delayed, but that was so very well worth it: a great gathering of colleagues and former grad students; and moving speeches that only conveyed a fraction of the love and gratitude that was ... I was going to write "in the room" - in the garden?
That would be Meg Russett's beautiful garden.
Bill Handley giving a heartfelt speech: it's a long time since I first met Bill, when he was a grad rep on the Faculty Board in Oxford, where he was already eloquent, but I don't know that I ever foresaw that he and I would be colleagues in Southern California ...
and then there were plenty of dear friends, colleagues, and former colleagues: the summer may not exactly have started yet (another week and a half of duties); but it felt like we're nearly there!
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