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dear friends,

i miss you. all of you.

there are many of you who i see very often, and there are those of you that i see every once in a blue moon. but for anyone i consider a friend, and who i hope considers me a friend, i want you to know that i miss you.

life has been so crazy for all of us… has anyone but i wondered how it got this way? what happened to our weekends? when did we stop being able to call each other on thursday or friday and know that we could still squeeze some time to hang out? when did life start requiring us to plan 3 or 4 weekends in advance? or is it just me (and iris) that have to do that nowadays?

i look thru pictures of us and our good times, and i miss them. i wax nostalgic on memories of not-so-distant pasts, cling onto the smiles and frowns, laughter and tears, triumph and heartache that we experienced. and yet, with each day that passes without a renewal or reminder of those times, the harder and harder it gets to recreate them in my head and in my heart.

so to you my friends i say this: let’s not let these moments pass and fade away. i know i’m guilty of not being a good friend sometimes, but please know that i still think about you, even if i hardly ever drop an email or im or even a facebook/myspace/social network message to you. and i hope to work on it, so don’t count me out just yet.

please say hello and tell me you got my letter. then maybe we can take some time to hang out, catch up, and create some new memories, even if but for a few minutes or a few hours. i think we all deserve time with friends.

always,

-m

iris and i went to seattle last weekend for maybelle and scott’s wedding and, man, we packed in the sight-seeing! i hadn’t been to seattle for years, and iris had never been, so it was great to go out and explore the wonders that seattle had to offer…

we did a lot of cool thing out there… one of the highlights for me was definitely checking out the experience music project & science fiction museum… the exhibits were awesome! and being that jimi hendrix was originally from seattle, they were showing clips from various performances in their theater… his rendition of the star spangled banner from woodstock still gives me chills…

another awesome place is the museum of glass, where we spent almost 2 hours watching the glass artists make some cool pieces…

and of course, pike street market and the ferries were kick-ass!

i think seattle is one of the few places where iris and i actually came home and said “you know, moving here for a year or two wouldn’t be so bad…” the weather, of course, is nothing to home, but we both just loved the feel of the city… for me, it really does seem like a place where the technical and cultural seem to meld, which is fantastic! at almost every corner you’ll find a shop (like a coffee shop) that has free wi-fi access. music and art play big roles in people’s daily lives. it’s really cool. and the cofee is like no other.

i like to go back again, but i’m not sure how many sights we left hanging… so, i don’t know when i’ll be back, but i hope it will be soon so i can taste that chocolate-y goodness of the small coffee houses and the fresh washington air.

-m