spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization, meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya with Free The Children, a group that built sustainable schools in developing countries, tracking with gorilla conservationists in Rwanda.
It’s cliche, because it’s true that helping other ends up helping you more than anyone.
Even at work, the small feats of kindness, crew members, directors, fellow actors have shown me, have had the most lasting impact.
And of course, first and foremost, the center of my world is the love that I share with my family and friends.
I wish for you that your friends will be with you through it all as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated.
My friends from school are still very close.
We’ve nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each other’s weddings.
We’ve held each other at funerals, and rocked each other’s new babies.
We’ve worked together on projects, helped each other get jobs, and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones.
And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship as we look at them toddling together Haggard and disheveled working parents that we are.