“You should write something tonight…for your friends…” she says. I’m in sweats, sitting on my bed in the dark with the laptop humming from a perch on a pillow. The TV is locked on to the History channel, I know I’m half way to Neverland already and it just isn’t going to happen, but I tell her I’ll try, exchange a few loving words and hang up. Minutes later the laptop is on the floor atop a pile of knitting books and I’m in my go-to-sleep position on my right side with my arm jammed between my pillows.

Drifting off her words bounced around my head along side animated fat drop shadow bubble font images of the words “peace”, “friendship” and “connections”.

When I was in London two years ago I found myself reconnected with someone I’d been in third grade with in Anchorage. I remarked at how small the world was.

A few weeks ago, a friend was in a car accident; the same friend who made the request of me last night. Last week when she found herself still sore, she inquired about my massage goddess and I pointed her to the website for the business. The world proved itself smaller still, since the owner of the practice and my friend had worked together fifteen years prior.

Oddly enough, I also knew the man though my WAKA team during the summer of ’05. He was on the team along with Ebeth, who I stayed with in London. Hm.

The point is – if I have one – that time changes some things, but it will never change our need to reconnect with our past. To be reminded of how far we’ve come, to reintroduce us to our dreams, to remind us what we felt like when we were young and too naive to let our hearts close up, or to bring us awareness and the reminder to be present *today* and right now via the crack of a wet towel to a big bare mental bootie — it all serves the same purpose and presents the same lessons.

1) While you’re so busy with your rush rush rush self imposed completely unnecessary drama, don’t forget to live.
2) We are all connected.
3) If we are open to what the universe puts in front of us, a great adventure will almost certainly follow.

I think I might need to attach electrodes to myself and program a device to deliver 1.21 gigawatts of electricity a few times a day just do I don’t forget the lessons…again.