Listening to King Crimson on the way home from work today. Weird collision of feelings as I flipped through the contact list on my cell phone. I've been carrying around the same set of names and numbers for several years. As Adrian Belew sang "Absent Lovers" I was mouthing the names of people I haven't spoken to since before I was married. The names felt wrong on my tongue, as if I'd never spoken them before. I appreciate the simile that time passes like a river, wide then narrow with currents of different rates. Lately I've been spending my leisure time with a group of folks I didn't even know 6 months ago. In a few years, I wonder if I'll be remembering them as contacts on my cell phone, being deleted one by one?
Posted by cbrown at July 11, 2003 8:42 PM