Thank you.
What can I possibly say?
[LAUGHTER]
I do want to say welcome, bienvenidos,
and also wilkommen, benvenuto, bienvenue, yáʼátʼééh.
So many ways to say so simple a thing,
you'd think we would have gotten it straight by now.
But we're all different.
And I take that as a good thing.
So many people to thank.
I thank you all.
I won't go through it all.
But I'm so glad that you mentioned,
Bob, being part of the original poets
in the schools group-- that iconic core.
And I know Peggy Shumaker was in it with me,
right from the beginning, and right through all of this, too.
And there were some others in this room.
This was quite a time, and I think it forged our lives.
And those early days, whatever they are,
they come back to give us something.
We reap what we sow, and what was sown--
this is going to sound gross, but what was sown in us, right?
[LAUGHTER]
You know what I mean.