The gift is only part of the day. There's a room to organise, a card going round that everyone has to write something in, and a few words owed at the end of it. These pages cover that half: how the send-off is usually run, and what to say when it's your turn to write.
The reading, in order
The whole path
The path ends here. The first stage starts back at what to give, and the journal holds every piece of writing on this site.