This morning on a Chicago transit bus were two little girls–maybe 2nd grade. One of them had a notebook that had a graduation tassle attached. Both of these girls were too young to have graduated from anything to have a tassle. It would be really cool if an older brother or sister gave her his/her tassle.
Six reasons why it’s cool to give your sibling your graduation tassle:
1) The tassle looks really fun dangling from a book.
2) It makes the younger sibling look forward to graduation
3) The tassle doesn’t do much just sitting in a box
4) The tassle has even more life and memory being active every day
5) It shows love from the older sibling to give away something he/she is so proud about.
6) It shows love on the part of the younger sibling to receive it. To not be so self-arrogant. Accepting the tassle shows that the younger sibling is proud of their older sister/brother.
my college graduation tassle got lost in a tree. Following the ceremony I threw my cap into the air. The cap came down and the tassle did not. It didn’t help the matter much by the fact that my tassle was brown. So there’s a squirrel somewhere on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University who is enjoying my graduation tassle. Perhaps he used it for his nest. Or maybe the squirrel is wearing my tassle as a wig.