Reunion - What it Was

So there we were some of us at the school -some not.
Some at the Hilton -some not.
Some at the Alibi-some not.

But that Saturday evening we were in a very unique place.

It was not home - but it certainly was where the heart is-for a moment or two.
We were in a place where some of the things that had lived inside of us for so long finally had a chance to come out.

We were in a place of fantasy.
The little kids inside were able to see who everyone were destined to be.
We traveled through time - to the future from a distant past.

We were also in a charmed and eternal present - renewed by the the knowledge that Mary, Lynda, Richard, John, Colleen, David , Ricky, Jack, Kathy, David, Roddy, Hopeton, Lorraine, A.C., Wayne, Lorraine, Carl, -all of us -everybody there - the ones who contain the old magic- were and are - still there- just a little older.

And when we came together, the sum was greater than the parts.

I do not know if we can ever do it again.
I do not know if I want to .
I do not know if I -"need" to - is more the point.

This was one hell of a get-together.
I have been to a number of these things and this was the greatest.

The memories we created from Friday at the Alibi, the Hilton to 4 a.m.,the kick-off Saturday morning, Tour of the school, Alibi in the afternoon, to the well dressed cocktail party, then onto the dinner event with John, Colleen, Carl, Richard, Kathee, Jacqueline, Debbie, Jimmy and many more, the live band, through to 5:00AM in various rooms, the breakfasts on Sunday and back in Chateauguay - the visits to various people's houses...and the leaving.

This was not "home",
this was not "the school",
this was not "the past".
It was well beyond the "NOW".

It was a spell
that has become
part of our becoming;
part of our mending,
perhaps part of our
completion.

We came to a place like home
and found ourselves
and much more -
with many faces
and many names.

Sure there are a few people
I would have liked
to have seen.
But the best came through.
We laughed,
We cried,
remembered,
hugged and came together.
Community- the fabric of continuance;
no matter where.
You were there or you were square.

Be well Brave souls -life is!