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Today was about connecting with people.

Wayfarer House (minus Karla, who spent the holiday with her given family) spent the day with Chili and her house.

I wrote over 2,000 words worth of replies to graduated students of mine in response to their news:

— Joe and Dani are married a year and a half now (we were at the wedding), and they have an 8-month old son.

— Kimi is local to us, but she’s getting wanderlust and may be relocating to California. Right now, though, she’s in school for nursing.

— Jen traveled the world as a flight attendant for the last 3 years, but stepped away from that to move to Germany with her boyfriend.

— Jennie, Heather, Rebeccah, Jeff, Courtney, Lanie and McKayla are all back on the Wayfarer grid after extended absences. Welcome back, gang!

I also wrote long letters to a couple of friends of mine from college whom I haven’t talked to in many, many years. I’m still getting details on their lives of late, but I know this:

— Amy is back in Wisconsin now. She spent many years in both Japan and South America, and is teaching elementary school (alternatively Spanish and English). She’s also doing grad school.

— Tyra is married and living in Seattle. She’s working as an architect, and has a beautiful baby girl. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting her husband, but I understand he’s a Vermonter.

I still need to get letters out to Heshan and his family, Diane and Maia, but that’ll have to wait for another day.

Oh, and I told Jinx I owed her some blog love. I’ll get to that, too.