{"id":4371,"date":"2013-07-09T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/summer2013\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2013-07-09T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:34:44","slug":"on-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/summer2013\/departments\/closing-column\/on-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"On Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave the bricks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4521\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4521\" data-attachment-id=\"4521\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/summer2013\/departments\/closing-column\/on-leaving\/attachment\/cc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/summer2013\/files\/2013\/07\/CC.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1736,1958\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Campus Walk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo by Norm Shafer.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/summer2013\/files\/2013\/07\/CC-266x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/summer2013\/files\/2013\/07\/CC-908x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4521\" alt=\"Photo by Norm Shafer.\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/summer2013\/files\/2013\/07\/CC-265x300.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Norm Shafer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although you wish that you could walk them<br \/>\nin other places, other paths, that finding<br \/>\nyour way from cap and gown to nine-to-five<br \/>\nwas well-worn and obvious as the route<br \/>\nup to the dining hall, it is not. And<br \/>\nit is not meant to be. Besides,<br \/>\nsome freshman will soon need them.<\/p>\n<p>So leave them.<\/p>\n<p>Leave each tree,<br \/>\nbut carry in your eye their stunning gold,<br \/>\nfour years of fall distilled and hung<br \/>\nin one glowing corner of your memory.<br \/>\nYou might take one leaf to help<br \/>\nrecall the way the russet walk was mirrored<br \/>\nin their canopies, but even such a small<br \/>\necho can grow heavy after passing years.<\/p>\n<p>So leave the trees.<\/p>\n<p>Leave the covers of the books, but keep<br \/>\nthe shape of each inked word. Collect<br \/>\nvoices that shaped you, made you<br \/>\nbreathless with anger, breathless with love;<br \/>\nthose things you keep. Pack carefully<br \/>\naway the look that one professor gave you<br \/>\nwhen you were finally able to believe<br \/>\neach good thing they\u2019d told you all along:<br \/>\nthat this place is your place, that you<br \/>\nhave moved through it and yourself moved,<br \/>\nand now, stepping toward a different<br \/>\nlife, the things you\u2019ve kept may someday<br \/>\nbe returned.<\/p>\n<p><em>When President Richard V. Hurley heard <b>Haley Campbell \u201913 <\/b>read \u201cOn Leaving\u201d at the Donor Appreciation Luncheon this spring, he liked it so well that he asked her to read it at commencement. Campbell was the recipient of the 2013 UMW Barbara Thomas Phillips Creative Writing Scholarship. Her degree is in English with a concentration in creative writing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave the bricks. 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