Reconnections - Whoa. I just got off the phone with a woman who was one of my best friends when I was 17; I hadn't heard from her since. →[More:]I'm kind of floored. She's a friend of my wild painter aunt - see here - and it sounds like she basically saved her life. They were talking on the phone when the stroke happened and she (my friend) was able to call a doctor friend of hers and make sure that my aunt ended up at a good hospital. She's been going by every day, too.

It was amazing to talk to her, reconnect - she said, "I can't picture you except the way you were at 17 when we used to just sit in that house and smoke joints all day long." Holy shit, yes. And I can't picture her any other way either and now both of us have grown or nearly grown kids. Life is so freaking weird sometimes and it's funny how nothing ever really goes away and stuff tends to go in circles. My aunt took me in when I was a teenager and now it looks like it will be my turn to take her in.