Penultimate day at UCLA - Los Angeles Family Photographer

My mind drifts back to your first days at UCLA. Unable to walk unassisted, no ability to move your vocal chords and sound a word, cry or laugh, in terms of what you have achieved, it feels like a lifetime away. And yet did I envisage you walking, talking, laughing, climbing, jumping. I had my high hopes, I knew there was an Everest to climb and at times the peak kept cruelly being displaced, higher and higher, so it felt like we would never reach the summit, and yet today, on your penultimate day at UCLA, we can stand with the flag waving and look down to the peaks and troughs, the deep canyons and joyous crests and truly marvel at what lies below us. It's a beautiful view.
I started out fairly calmly, but then realising during Circle Time that this would be the last time we would sing "Reuben came to play today...", I couldn't control the rush of tears. I didn't manage to sing this song to you a final time Reuben (tomorrow we are only in for graduation); only my fingers could do the talking in sign in respect of a little wobbly chin and stiffled chords.

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ...

but are felt in the heart." Helen Keller