Afternoon Baseball

When you basically live out of a suitcase for months, then move hundreds of miles from everyone you know, there can be a sense of isolation. That you're going to lose people -- not literally, but from your life -- is in the back of your mind.

So it was a great comfort tonight when I got this instant message:
"hey! where've you been all week?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson probably wrote somewhere, eloquently and at length, about the small joys of life, but that right there was the personification.