I was at a cocktail party this week, and my lovely former neighbor Blair asked how I get ideas for the Love Notes. I admitted to being a little worried about this one. Historic Garden Week made for a busy week, and I had yet to even pick up a pen. Worse still, I confessed I had zero ideas.
But that is what I love about this weekly missive. It forces me to look a little harder, and sometimes sends me out on a vigilant and assiduous hunt for little bits of life that just might be worth sharing here.
Then my dear friend Ruth walked over, who had just run into someone she knew from Georgetown Visitation - where her daughters had gone to school. The conversation turned to what it's like to go to a school with a religious affiliation different from your own. Visitation, or Visy as it is known, is an all girls Catholic high school on a beautiful 45 acre campus in the heart of Georgetown, immediately north of Georgetown University.*
I had never heard of the Salesian tradition, which informs the school motto: be who you are and be that well. READ MORE