It’s not a bad pursuit in these lockdowned days to gather in old friends lost upon the byways of our lives. It feels significant. It harmonises our past with our present. But more than that, and in these times it is important, it might just make someone...
Time slows down in COVID-affected times and becomes elastic. What happened decades ago feels like yesterday and what happened last week feels like a month ago.
I rang an old friend out of the blue, from university French classes, decades ago. On the phone, after all these years, it was as if we had just finished a class and headed to the cafe. Sure, the topics of conversation had changed, no longer about funny things in class or weekend plans but rather about parenthood, but otherwise we were the same, our connection as strong as ever.
where the silence is due only to the fact that the parties have moved in different directions and out of range. The connection, never broken, lies dormant, waiting only for one party to reach out across time for its battery to recharge and its machinery to shudder back to life.
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