The Salad Days

I just traded e-mails with a seminary buddy of mine who is finishing a PhD at Cambridge. He has taken a faculty position at an Anglican seminary in London. One of my high school youth group buddies will be moving to London in August with his wife in kids. My youth leader and mentor has set up shop in Phoenix; he moved there in '93 and has called it home ever since. We still have good friends in Chicago. Two of the friends we made in our years there are the ones who live in England, and two others have taken a job here in Minneapolis after a two year stint in New York. Two of our dear friends are missionaries in Kiev, Ukraine. Two other friends from early in our marriage live in Boise, and of course we have a few friends (other than family of course) left in SoCal.

I love reflecting on this for a couple of reasons. First, and selfishly, it's fun to think of the traveling we could do while being able to reacquaint with old friends. And second, the closeness I feel to them all through the internet and shared faith is something that has been great to experience.