reason 1:52 pm on Monday, October 30 2006

For every person I have met, for every person I have known, I know there has always been a reason for that meeting.  I don't always know that reason, for sure, and indeed I don't need to.  And sometimes I think I know the reason, but may have got it wrong.  And sometimes my understanding of the reason matches the reason precisely.

Today I was contacted by a friend from the past.  After 10 years.  Out of the blue.  I am overjoyed.  Not least of all that given the circumstances of our meeting in 1996, we are both still alive. 

I think the fact she stumbled upon my email address on the web was not down to chance, it was down to good reason.  She needs help.  I think a door has just opened. 

Al