...and it's a perfect one.

a cool, clear morning. sky azure like the crystalline shallows at Makena. as i walk downhill to campus i can see all the way across San Francisco Bay to the Golden Gate Bridge, glinting red in the sunlight, and the ivory bank of fog sitting just offshore.

i'm glad the day dawned clear. had it been a more typical Berkeley morning, i.e. fog-shrouded and wintry cold, it would have made my mood correspondingly dreary. i make no bones about it, after all... the ending of the summer session at ATDP, and of my classes in particular, makes me sad.

but sad in a good way, you know. not a 'dreary' kind of sad. ever since the first Internet Classroom, five summers ago now, i've found that the class doesn't really end. it's not just something we say at the end of each session... it's true. the very nature of the Internet lets that happen. you can see it, manifested in the presence of the course TAs and teachers. they are the embodiment of the idea of 'community' that was here, ever since the beginning.

and so i look forward to the coming moments online with you, unless you happen to be in Maui after October in which case mi casa es su casa... or you happen to be visiting Berkeley in which case you must stop by my office at Tolman Hall. each one of you has made a deep impression on me. your websites and weblogs have, for me, become windows to your lives and i feel privileged to be given that glimpse.

i hope your experience of Berkeley and our class was a wonderful one. it certainly was so for me. i'll see ya online, one and all...

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