Leap

J. and I knew one another in Seattle in the late 1970’s through the ‘80’s. Then I lost contact with him for nearly 22 years. Knowing him then, knowing him now with this huge gap in between makes for a strange layering of time. I can have my arms around him now and see very clearly, feel very precisely, the young man he was. For us there has been no progression. We have not changed gradually but have leapt forward to this time.