Meeting old friends

As I indicated yesterday, not only was it a meaningful day for Sage and her extended family, but it was also a meaningful day for Carolyn and me because of all the old friends we were able to see, meet, and sometimes even talk with one another. There isn’t a lot of time before or between meetings and visiting after you’ve entered the main chapel is frowned upon as being irreverent. We must have made a lot of people upset because we were greeting and speaking with people from 20 minutes before start time to start time.

Interestingly, anyone who knew us from 9 years ago greeted us like long lost friends. To be sure, there were many in that category but there were also a few who didn’t know us that well back then and didn’t have much of a relationship with us but they greeted us warmly as well. I believe that as time goes by our memory builds up a false or even hoped for relationship. And unless we really KNOW the relationship we play it safe by reacting as positively as possible. We hope we didn’t offend anyway but that’s a whole new topic area.

I must admit that the overwhelming concern from old friends was Carolyn’s health and whether she had gone back to work. I barely got a notice.