X'mas resolution 3: Keeping in touch with those I love

You know who you are: my friends who are an important part of me and who have been here for me all this while!

There is a second group of people I love: the ones who left a deep impression in Europe. It might sound a tad pretenious by declaring that I love them though we only met briefly this September, how else could I explain how I think about Chris and Mom, Abby and Landau from time to time? The brief couple of hours on the journey when we put aside our own preoccupations and opened our hearts to include others without reservation? The ones whom I don't have pictures of - Linda from Ecosse International, the uncle beside me on the train to Edinbugh and Zu in Geneva- I remember all of you fondly. Though I have not kept in touch for months as promised, I resolve to do that this X'mas.

My friends, Merry X'mas!