“Never say good-bye because good-bye means going away, and going away means forgetting.” –

Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie

A day of goodbyes.  So we wouldn’t have to get up at 4am to get to Putney by 9am we drove to Northampton and stayed with our friend Lindsay (Katherine’s high school roommate) last night. She is getting ready to sell her house and is not sure she wants to or is ready to say goodbye to it but she and her partner need more space. This allowed us 2.5 more hours of sleep, most of which we burned talking deep into the night but so it goes.

At 7:30 we headed off to Putney and Abigail.  Stopped at The Putney Diner – a great little place for good food and local chatter – for a muffin and some coffee and arrived promptly at 9am. Spent the next four hours looking at people’s art (very good work if I do say so), visiting the barn, packing Abigail up, listening to spoken word poetry,  and singing, but mainly watching teenagers alternately laughing while exchanging numbers and emails, and melting down, crying and hugging. Abigail’s friend, Anya explained post-Putney depression to everyone (It was her second year). We hear it lasts one to two weeks and you really can’t get into anything for a while. You see your old friends and try to pretend you are happy but you just want to be at Putney with your session 1 buddies.

Abigail and Holly

Safae, Mario and Abigail

Safae and Zoe (should have an umlaut over the e)

Anya

Final Sing – 1

Final Sing – 2

“Friends are god’s way of apologizing to us for our families.”

Tennessee Williams

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11/10/10

Old Friends