I received a nice donation the other day from a friend I haven't spoken to in an awful long time…and by "awful long time," I mean the previous century. I can't tell you why we haven't spoken since then. I know we didn't have a fight or any sort of disagreement. I just didn't get around to calling him and he didn't get around to calling me. If I had called him in recent times, I wouldn't have gotten him since his phone number has changed but he was nice enough to include the current one in a note accompanying his donation — "just in case you ever want to catch up."
So I gave him a call and we caught up, which was mostly a matter of him catching me up on what he's been up to these years. I started to tell him some of what had happened with me but he said, of the first few things I tried to tell him, "I know…I read your blog." It had never occurred to me he might be among those following this silly thing. I think we're going to get together once our respective schedules unclog a bit.
What I was going to write here before I spotted his donation was how pleased I am to see donations from folks I don't know. I guess I thought of my "readership" as the people who write in but it isn't. It's apparently a pretty substantial percentage and that pleases me. But it's also pleasing to see a donation from someone I know…and today it was especially pleasing to get some bucks from someone I know but haven't heard from in way too long a time. When it's the right someone I haven't heard from in way too long a time, that's way better than money.
