A Day for Nostalgia

Doing the project with Betty brings back all kinds of memories.  We had to send email to Chris and her son used to play soccer and basketball with my son.  Then today while at the grocery store I ran into her brother and sister-in-law whose son used to also play sports with Mike.  In fact Dave used to coach soccer.  Funny how the universe works sometimes.  Dave had his youngest son with and he has grown into a tall young man.  Always good to see them all doing well.
Tonight the phone rang.  My brain did a freeze when he first said it was Doug.  And then he quickly clarified which one.  I haven't talked to Doug in twenty years due to his situation with his wife at the time.  Hindsight told me that I was much too quick to take her side.  Especially the things that came out later and after I had time to think about things.
So since I had been chasing my past and making amends where I needed to, I had dropped by his house and was amazed that he still lived there.  A couple more stops and I got the nerve to go up to his door.  No answer to my knock.  So I wrote a quick note stating that although it was twenty years late I apologized for backing the wrong horse.  I had forgotten who my friend was.  Gave him my number and said I would love to catch up but only if he wanted to.  That note was left several months ago and I figured as time went by that he did not want to.
We did a quick catch up.  He had driven by our old place today and almost stopped.  Said he was glad he hadn't.  I told him Joe would have told him about Dave and it would have been okay.  Wonder if his timing was when I was at Betty's.  My world seems to work like that sometimes.
So we are going to meet in the future and have coffee even though all our old coffee haunts are gone.  Guess we find a new one.  I was glad that he called and he was too by the end of the call.  Said it was hard and that he had been going back and forth for awhile.  Well so had I when I did my drive-bys.