Friend #172: Tory
Date and Location of Visit: Wednesday October 12, 2011, McAlister’s Deli, Republic, MO
Known from: High school marching band
Last seen: 1996-ish?
And another band reunion! Click here.
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Friend #170: Laura (and Scott)
Date and Location of Visit: 54th Street Grill, October 10, 2011, Blue Springs (outside Kansas City), MO
Known from: High school marching band
Last seen: 1994
More band reunions. Click here.
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Update: If you want to read Rashad‘s article, mentioned in the previous post, click here.
Friend #169: Kevin (and Lindy, Connor, and Emma)
Date and Location of Visit: October 7-9, 2011, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Known from: High school marching band, a friend of my brother’s
Last seen: Summer of 1993 (?)
Videos and pictures and stories, oh my! Click here.
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On Tuesday, July 19th, I had coffee in the morning with Rashad and happy hour in the afternoon with Dacia. Rashad and I played in orchestra together in high school, and Dacia and I met in 6th grade when she came to my school. Both of these visits entailed sitting across the table with people in very similar life circumstances as myself–commiserating, encouraging. And being able to say, “Hey, I haven’t seen you in awhile, but this is what I see in you, and this is who I’ve known you to be.”
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I’m experimenting with a more sustainable format as I enter Phase 2. I’m sure everyone will be thoroughly confused as I continue blogging about Phase 1 while simultaneously documenting Phase 2. Good luck!
Friend #168: Melissa
Date and Location of Visit: October 5-6, 2011, Flagstaff, Arizona
Known from: The River counseling groups
Last seen: June 2006
Click here for memories of Melissa and more about our visit.
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For the past several years in Los Angeles, I have helped to lead counseling groups which assist people through some of the darkest junk in their lives. At one point in my small group, I brought along a big Norwegian sweater of my mom’s in which to wrap the girls in my group when they would share about something particularly difficult. It became known as the “Mama Love.” It’s a term I’ve adopted in my life because there are times in everyone’s lives when you just need a little Mama Love. As I reflected on these next visits, they were linked with this theme, so I decided to write about them together.
So I bring you my Mama Love (and Mama Loss) visits with Laura, Robyn, Amy, and Kelly.
Click here for some more Mama Love!
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After sending Michele and Aaron off on their business trip, I headed from south St. Louis city back to the suburbs to visit with Shannon and her twins, mid-morning on Monday July 18th. It turns out that Shannon had been at the U2 concert the night before, as well. Apparently when the workers were setting up at Busch Stadium and putting metal sheeting down on the grass, it was 159 degrees on the field. Shannon and I talked about the concert and caught up on life while corralling toddler twins Isabella (Bella) and Boston.
More memories with Shannon…click here.
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Connecting Cross Country 