Part I of Trip Home: Blessings

[quirty]

I flew home this past weekend for Aprotim & Lauren's wedding.  I'm glad I was able to be very in the moment to enjoy witnessing their union and then celebrating among friends.  Still, the experience provoked a great deal of emotion and then thought, as I sought to sort the emotions out.  I think many of us had similar, somewhat overwhelming

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[urania]

...but at least the power of staying in touch electronically is that it's easier to get started up again. It eases the awkwardness of catching up, makes sure we don't feel like strangers meeting.

That's so true - but at the same time, I know I caught myself feeling unexpectedly shy, even with some people I chat with pretty frequently online. It was really odd. (I think partly because there were just so many people - card-carrying introvert here, like so many of us!) It's as if part of my brain wanted to shift back into the high-school dynamic, and part of it couldn't, so mostly I felt awkward until I actually started talking to someone. I like to think I couldn't have been the only person there having the same kind of reaction. :-)