I didn't get a chance to post this earlier, but something crazy wonderful happened to me today! I found a long lost friend, and he is right here in Portland, as I always thought he might be! In fact, he was one of the reasons I chose this city. He lived a Kerouac kind of existence most of his life, but always said this is the one place he might settle. I had a really vivid dream about him on New Year's Eve, so I thought it was significant. We lost touch a few years ago, and Sarah has bugged me about finding him so many times as she was crazy about him. He lived with us off and on several times and they used to write songs together. I had made a few efforts in the past but thought it was pretty futile since he has a pretty common name. Then today I thought I should look again. I came up on several dead ends, then happened to find a post somebody had made on a poetry site in 2006. He used to write poetry and the post came from Portland, so I took the plunge and sent an email off. It was him! And he has been here for six years! To think we have been in the same city for two years and didn't even know it. Wow, what a way to start the New Year!
Today was a good day to post it because Orion and I headed downtown to Powell's for a visit with him. We met at the Cafe there, and Orion was his usual high energy self, so we didn't get much time to talk, but it was still fun. Next time we will try to make it to the fancy bakery where he works so we can see him rolling out the bread and such.
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