As much as I am loving my new friends in Toronto - and really some of them are not so new anymore! - I am prone to loneliness these days.  I've been a pretty bad correspondent with my Boston friends, and I feel rotten about it, but I find I have nothing I want to say because I'm in a period of transition - have been for ages, and can't seem to figure out what is news and what is not.

So I've been reaching out to people for whom the events of the last several years are news, some college friends I'd been out of touch with for awhile.

I am completely bursting with joy over this.  Two women in particular (I only went to college with women) have just come back into my life and made me feel so much more grounded, even though both of them are far from here.  And far from Boston, for that matter.

I wish I'd done it sooner, but thank goodness I'm doing it now.