Reunion
Wonderful. Too short (in part thanks to my schedule, or mom's; in part because that's just how it is). Saw both expected and unexpected people.
Had the usual experience of sudden confusion and not having anything to stay to people whose writing I really like, while finding it effortless to talk to other people. I probably come across as a snob sometime, but of course I don't want to!
However, that aside, there was a terrific impromptu, accretive (more folks kept sitting down) seminar in a hallway (from the effect on one's class of "coming out" as Jewish or atheist to one's students of various ages, to the changes of word meanings, to ways of addressing accidental (and ignorant) offensiveness in the workplace, and more...). Some games, some conversations, an unfinished chalk mural, hot weather (we'd just had a wood stove fire on June 1st, so a big contrast...), even more beautiful (in number and quality) gardens than I remembered, serendipity, ice cream, lots of fruit, and games, and hugs, and that comforting deep connectivity that reminds me that I am, sometimes, the person I wanted to become.
Had the usual experience of sudden confusion and not having anything to stay to people whose writing I really like, while finding it effortless to talk to other people. I probably come across as a snob sometime, but of course I don't want to!
However, that aside, there was a terrific impromptu, accretive (more folks kept sitting down) seminar in a hallway (from the effect on one's class of "coming out" as Jewish or atheist to one's students of various ages, to the changes of word meanings, to ways of addressing accidental (and ignorant) offensiveness in the workplace, and more...). Some games, some conversations, an unfinished chalk mural, hot weather (we'd just had a wood stove fire on June 1st, so a big contrast...), even more beautiful (in number and quality) gardens than I remembered, serendipity, ice cream, lots of fruit, and games, and hugs, and that comforting deep connectivity that reminds me that I am, sometimes, the person I wanted to become.