Caeli

On St. Patrick's Day, James had his first round of comprehensive exams for his master's program-- basically essay exams on the past 5 semesters of the program.  Afterwards, the students who are in the first year of the program (and will not have to take their test until next year) held a party.  One student comes from a very Irish family.  She said every year they have a great party, a caeli, for St. Patrick's Day.  Since she could not make it back home, she wanted to bring the party to us.  They cooked a feast of shepherd's pie, scones, soda bread, etc, and then she taught us some traditional Irish dances.  It was a truly beautiful day outside, and someone soon made the excellent call that the only thing better than prancing around doing an Irish dance, would be doing so on the beautiful green lawn outside.

 Lucy was in her glory: people, outside, dancing, flowers.