Warm Drinks, Warm Memories

Have you ever met someone who you have an instant connection with? It's an intriguing experience, and one that I was fortunate enough to have this evening. 

I finally met the creative brains behind SHE SAID SAVE ME. 

For the purposes of this post, I will call him J. After a long string of messages following my initial "general appreciation" message about his music, J and I finally managed to work out a time to get together while he was visiting home this weekend. We met at Coffee Culture where I had warm drinks ready for when he arrived, and after an almost awkward introduction (really, how do you "introduce" yourself to someone you already sort of know kind of well?), we just fell into easy conversation about music, film sets, my potential thesis topics and international issues. We spent a good hour and a half just talking and getting to know each other in person. I can only speak for myself, but it hardly felt like that much time passed.

I love the dynamics of friendship.

In other news, I went directly from coffee with J to a family dinner with my dad's cousins and other assorted relatives. It was wonderfully exhausting. Babies, parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles...it was incredible. And busy. Lots of catching up happened over the next 5 hours, along with eating good food and sharing our respective talents, including music, poetry and storytelling.

Needless to say, as wonderful as this family time was, being crowded into a cottage with 15 other people (though not entirely uncomfortably), it was beautiful and overwhelming. 

I love the dynamics of family.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this alone time/quiet time to write this, and am now relaxed and ready for bed. So I will leave you with my love well-wishes. 

Peace & Love,

K.