the more things change.

but some things remain very-much the same.

love, friendship, respect, affinity: for example.

this week i have had the unprecedented privilege of

re-connecting with perhaps some of the most influential

people i’ve ever known or hope to know.

i say ‘unprecedented’ because there was a time that i

rather divorced myself from many of these people and

have felt, for years, that i’d never be in contact with them

again, despite how much i may have hoped.  when i fell off

the surface of the planet and went into insanity for nearly a

decade, i never would have thought that i’d have the opportunity

to speak to a few people; indeed, i have long thought that i

scarce had the ‘right’ to speak to several for myriad reasons.

having been raised in a military family it was always a reality

that as a kid you might make friends, know them for a few years

and never see them again due to the geographical dislocations

germane to the military way of life.

it’s good to hear from and to have communication with

(most) all of my olde studio mates from landscape architecture

school and a few other ‘mates’ from those years that were in

studios in Vol Walker.