Just got off a two and a half hour phone conversation with a former Beacon teacher from the early days of Beacon. She is someone who usually spends six months of the year in Thailand, and ever since the tsunami, I’ve been worried that we’d lost her. For various reasons, I’ve been unable to get in touch with her.

But we finally found an old "Emergency Contact" phone number for her, and her dad called me back with her cell phone number, and a few phone tag messages later, we caught up.

I love that there are people in our lives who we can go months and years without talking to, and one phone conversation makes it feel like no time at all has passed.

Great to hear from you, Iona Michelle. Very glad to know you are doing well.