A PROMISE to California, Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love;
For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western Sea;
For These States tend inland, and toward the Western Sea—and I will also.
—Walt Whitman

Nice motto for the homeland. I’ll be remembering this as I being the long sojourn through the Ph.D.