from dust beautiful things

As I write this, a 40 year reunion is being planned for my year 10 cohort, to take place near the end of this year, around the time we all walked off the premises of our high school, never to return.

Facebook messaging has been a frenzy of activity over the past couple of weeks, as first the germ of an idea was floated, then some people were "invited", and slowly others were added to t…