Sometimes it all just comes together

As many of you know, the five of us visited Kenyon last week for a three-day residency, where we set out to meet as many people— senior staff, stakeholders, students, faculty, whoever— as possible. It went really well! We'll post some notes and conclusions from the meetings later this week. But there's one story that really stands out.

We set up a table outside the dining hall on Tuesday, and Donald and Tonya staffed it (while I snuck back to my luxurious room at the Kenyon Inn to decompress after spending all day talking). They talked to several passers-by about ideas for the new Kenyon Web site, what you don't like about the old one, etc. Some students that had stopped by the table on their way in to the dining hall stopped by on their way out, and dropped off a fortune cookie for us. Who knows why? They thought we might want one.

So Donald and Tonya decided that, whatever the fortune might say, we'd use it as the new White Whale motto. (Really. They decided that. No lie.) They opened the fortune cookie and lo and behold, look what came out:

Some of you at Kenyon may not know us that well. (Some of you probably know us pretty well indeed. I think my mom reads this.) Anyway, no fortune cookie could possibly do a better job of summing up what we think makes our company special. So to those Kenyon students, whoever you are— we didn't get your names— thanks a million!