About a month back, I finally made good on a promise that I made to myself when I finished my thesis: I was going to try to contact a couple of folks from Luther College with whom I had lost touch. In the age of Google, no one is more than a few clicks away, right? Well, after about 6 hours, I had an e-mail address for one and only a snail mail address for the other; not quite the immediate result I was expecting. I fired off e- and snail-mails respectively and hoped for the best.
I heard back right away from #1 (e-mail) and just this morning from #2 (snail mail). I think that reconnecting with someone is fraught with at least as much difficulty as getting to know them in the first place. At this point, we all have our own lives and tend to be pretty full without someone sending unsolicited e-mails. We all have grown and changed from who we were in school, but hopefully not too much. So, I'm grateful that they responded :-).
It's weird to try to figure out why, 13+ years out from school, certain people are still memorable. Both of the folks involved were very smart & talented, but I knew a lot of smart and talented folks. They were both artistic, but same goes there. I think that it was just that they were a lot more *interested* in things: art, music, philosophy, politics, etc. When I was with these folks, I just tended to see a lot of the magic of the world.
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