Saint Peter's Episcopal Church gathers for a parish picnic, the Capital Pride Parade, and a summer of hospitality.

Thresholds are not only for graduating seniors. In some way we are always on a threshold — whether it's the beginning of the day, a season, a job, a relationship, or a new reality we must face. Summer is its own kind of threshold, and this week Ginger Lewis's sermon has me wondering: who are you when the structure falls away?

Last Saturday night at 10:30 p.m., our usually quiet Northern Virginia neighborhood was uncharacteristically abuzz with a graduation party down the street — one of many celebrations at the end of the school year.