Learning As I Go: Reconnecting

I’ve had the privilege of reconnecting with two old friends this week. I was asked to speak at a retreat, and I knew my friend from high school lived nearby, so I texted. It was lovely reconnecting and talking over coffee and breakfast. Twenty plus years seemed like a moment since we first became friends in high school. We commiserated over our bodies being uncooperative but joked and interacted like we did at seventeen—just with a little more wisdom under our belts. The second friend tra