Saul Isler just graduated from Santa Monica College, a week to the day after he turned 85.
Maybe you think you’ve got nothing left to learn. Maybe you think you’ve got it all figured out.
What hooked me about his note? The very first words: “Nita: After flunking out of engineering school, I went on to become….” For fun and pocket change, he’d written freelance newspaper articles, mostly about food. He’d done restaurant reviews on the radio and in print. He’d once had a column called “The Woodbutcher” about woodworking.
His may be an extreme case, but how many of us who went to college wish in retrospect that we could have waited until we were old enough to appreciate it more? How many of us also have bemoaned missed chances and, rather than bravely correcting course, simply sighed and said, “It’s too late”? He exuded joy just to be in the room — which struck me all the more forcefully later, after I learned about the roller-coaster climbs and dips of his life.
That meant a few more unfocused undergraduate years and then a couple in law school — which in those days you could enter without an undergraduate degree, and which he enjoyed only for the chance it gave him to put out the school paper.
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