This past Saturday, as I have mentioned previously, was my 10th year high school reunion. Somehow I managed to muster up the attitude that this reunion might be an excellent opportunity to connect with people who, through the constructs of high school, I never really "knew". As it turns out, at the reunion, I was met with an enormous affirmation. I actually did fall into EXACTLY the right crowd of friends. Of all the people I talked with that night, of all the people I watched, I was not impressed or intrigued or seduced in a direction other than the one I am already headed. I left that rented hall feeling that I have been blessed with discovering friends who are of like mind and heart. Extraordinary people. Lovely people. I can't imagine life without them. And, really, without them, I would have not met some more extraordinary close friends. So, geez, I really lucked out. I knew that already, but after the reunion, I KNOW that.