Location: 10:00 PM, yest, fencing in Manhattan
Mood: contemplative
Music: and I say goodbye na zai jian
My college English teacher, Stewart O’Nan was a good fella and an amazing teacher. He once said to me, “Your stuff is good. Just…work on it.” I still remember. His novel, Snow Angels was just made into a film with Kate Beckinsale. I was lucky, I think, because I had a string of really good English teachers people in my life.
Paul used to have a B-Team of friends that were fun but he learned that you should only have an A-Team because you only got so much time and energy.
Remember when I said that your friends are mirrors to yourself? If you’ve changed and your friends haven’t, maybe it’s time to start cutting. Or call the ones that matter.
I should have called Stewart. Had his digits – just never got around to it. He was a good guy. Probably won’t remember me now.
But I remember him.
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Thomas Mann once said that A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Lynda was murdered ten years ago by a guy in my college circle of friends. My friends who knew her well never talk about it but it’s always there.
She and I only met a few times so it was more consoling my friends than anything else. But I did want to write something – if only to confirm that what the reporter wrote was true. She was beautiful.
Yeah, call your friends that matter.