An Old Friend

I've got to admit that I check traffic to my website way too much. Tonight I saw that a few people visited from a link at "Squad 51." This blog belongs to my old friend, Robert Festenstein. Robert and I grew up together. We went to junior high school together and then became friends in high school. We were very active in the same youth group, United Synagogue Youth. We both knew that Chicago was the greatest city in the world. Today, Robert is the executive director of a large synagogue in Ohio. As you know I am an independent educational consultant Southeastern Michigan. He has two children and is happily married. It's been way too long since we've been in contact. Sometimes I wish that we could go back to the days when people were born and died in same community. Our childhood community would stay our community for life. But, alas, that's impossible. Even as the world has become a flatter smaller place; it's become a larger place where it's too easy to move hundreds of miles at different points throughout life. In the process, we lose touch with good friends and make new ones.

But, Robert, I just wanted to say thank you for thinking of me and putting a link to my blog on your blog. I miss you.