1 Sometimes things just happen, you know?
2 Last night Peter had wanted to get together with some people from the ’05 days, just to laugh and catch up. He was able to assemble all my goodly tech people from that tech golden era, including Jose, Sparky, Ray, Trami and Vivien. We met up at Chili’s, out by Eastridge, which is fast becoming a fun mall.
3 Well, we laughed about this and that, and Jose and Sparky started in as always, only it had a different feel. For almost two hours it felt perfectly normal. They were as politically incorrect as ever, and as ever, I found myself laughing when I shouldn’t have, which is really what I always enjoyed about that group.
4 If you don’t know these guys, fear not, they are classic techies, earthy and real, and as good as it gets.
5 It seemed like a normal night two years ago, but suddenly I looked around and saw how much the world has changed in each of our lives, astounding changes, new lives all around.
6 Life moves on.
7 When we paid the bill and stood outside, it started to hit me that everything had shifted so much, and these people who were so central to my life, and the entire Theatre at YB were now moving rapidly in extreme different directions.
8 I thought of all of it, and of how proud I am of so many of those guys. The entire class, and that entire era swiftly dissipating, yet clearly very much alive in all our hearts.
9 And in keeping with synchronicity, as we stood in the night air outside of the restaurant, Fix You by Coldplay came right out of a Bose speaker directly over our
heads.
10 Colplay became the background music to the entire time we all spent together, laughing, hoping, loving, and being a part of a very special time in my teaching career, perhaps the most soulful time, and one in which there was a great deal of emotion and love, turmoil, tears, and ultimately, very sweet memories for all of us.
11 And Coldplay’s Fix You played out the night, as though it were cued to do so by some spiritual director. For just a millisecond, I looked into all their faces and it was just so familiar, and so wonderful in the grand scheme of things, because it came down to just a group of people who had spent hours and hours together at a time when time was meaningless, because all of that was never going to come to an end…
12 Of course, life just isn’t like that. All of us had moved and gained, and yet it was as if we had never departed.
13 I share that with the DN crowd only because most people who read this share those sorts of memories with good friends, and sometimes the world does throw music and lights together for the play we all are living in.
14 And it’s those tacit moments that are the stuff of life.
15 This goes out to a very special group of people.
16 Even those who weren’t there, this includes you.
17 I saw you smile.
18 Thanks.
19 Peace.
~H~
thanks.
1 Sometimes things just happen, you know?
