today i saw a dear college friend who was in town for a concert. we haven’t seen each other since 2017. since then we’ve lived through a pandemic, graduated with a masters (me) and a PhD (her), examined our spirituality, and shifted family dynamics. she’s a professor at our old university now, and we wondered at how different we are from our college selves. so proud of us & our capacity for growth & how we’ve learned to like & trust ourselves over the past decade. what an honor to witness!
