Should old acquaintance be forgot

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Have you ever sat straight up in bed in the early hours of the morning, or been riding your bike around a big lake, or been waiting for a bus, when, all of a sudden, you wondered, "Hey, I wonder however X is these days? I haven't seen him in a coon's age; he must be getting on in years; I hope he's feeling OK." I never used to have these questions suddenly burst upon my consciousness, but I'm now 66, and whenever I have them, and they're coming to me more frequently now than they did about thirty years ago, I take them very seriously, want to make sure my old and dear friends are still chugging along.

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