Friends
Perhaps you could call them old friends. So much has changed in the last two years, that they all seem like old friends. Four people showed up from my past. Why now?
Bill came to the Limb meeting 15 years older, and success in a new whole new occupation. His little girl was in her twenties.
Mike had become an adult! He was very tall, but still like the pleasant teen I remembered from 12 years earlier.
Bert e-mailed me. He ended up overseas. He asked about Fiesta. We used to talk on the phone. Now I know why he quit calling.
The last amazed me. I thought we parted in anger, but he cheerfully suggested we meet in the usual place. (Leos! Gotta love 'em!)
I'm not complaining. It just seems odd that so many people I've known in the past suddenly show up within a week. Three will go about their lives in the same manner as before. Bill will go back to AR, or wherever he has been. Mike may stay in TX, but somewhere around Dallas instead of near me. Bert is a question, because I don't even know why he left the country. The last, whom I didn't name, lives and works here. We talked of meeting again. We had fun talking and listening to bad singing together. His friends were interesting. His company was genuinely enjoyable, and it would be so again. It's just not something that is easy to arrange when a 10yo is involved.
I invited him to the Renaissance Faire. He might go. :)
Bill came to the Limb meeting 15 years older, and success in a new whole new occupation. His little girl was in her twenties.
Mike had become an adult! He was very tall, but still like the pleasant teen I remembered from 12 years earlier.
Bert e-mailed me. He ended up overseas. He asked about Fiesta. We used to talk on the phone. Now I know why he quit calling.
The last amazed me. I thought we parted in anger, but he cheerfully suggested we meet in the usual place. (Leos! Gotta love 'em!)
I'm not complaining. It just seems odd that so many people I've known in the past suddenly show up within a week. Three will go about their lives in the same manner as before. Bill will go back to AR, or wherever he has been. Mike may stay in TX, but somewhere around Dallas instead of near me. Bert is a question, because I don't even know why he left the country. The last, whom I didn't name, lives and works here. We talked of meeting again. We had fun talking and listening to bad singing together. His friends were interesting. His company was genuinely enjoyable, and it would be so again. It's just not something that is easy to arrange when a 10yo is involved.
I invited him to the Renaissance Faire. He might go. :)