The Lifelong Learning Community

I wrote in a previous blog post about the emotional workout of sending group emails to the far reaches of my personal network during the Kilometer 66 launch.  That list reflects my entire adult life - further back, actually, embracing even some family friends from early childhood.  So the mailing took me back, got me reflecting and musing and wondering … sometimes grinning, sometimes flinching.  

Looking back, there are more than just a few relationships that … perhaps the best way to say it would be, that I wonder about.  How things evolved, where we really ended up.  Especially from those years in the trenches, where we often found ourselves slogging it out, doing what we felt we were called to do but not always in the easiest of circumstances.  

Our own lives were, of course, always very much in process.  It’s so easy to look back and just see the raggedness, be reminded of our own deficiencies or growth areas (easier to...