This June, I sat in a college athletic center, uncomfortable on bleachers but hardly noticing because of the pride I felt. I teared up as a particular very tall boy walked in to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance" to receive his high school diploma. I went down to the floor with my digital point-and-shoot to wait with all the relatives holding video cameras and setting up tripods. (Tripods!) He tells me I didn't embarrass him, and in fact he was looking to see where I was.