Finished HS in '58 then disappeared into the Navy. Never saw but three
or four HS friends after that. Lived a different life. Same with
college. Finished, then went to live in a different world, leaving all
behind. A little while back, after 46 years, I drove through my college
alma mater. Many buildings gone, new building erected. Old haunts
disappeared. Didn't even stop. Didn't even recognize the place, it was
so different I didn't relate. The old memories of the place will have to
suffice, but then I never missed it enough to think of it but
infrequently - like a few years between each thought of it. Now, most
Faceplant friends are family, and friends from my life in Alaska, plus
some fine folk I have met through this list. Joy Hecht, Stephen Gronski
and wife, Gary Bawden, "Unca Joel" Walker, Jim Felder, Tim Hannink just
to name a few. And there are many from the the internet town of
"Clayart" which spans a few continents.  So I guess Faceplant can form a
community, just hadn't thought of it that way. But for all of these -
mostly I communicate using e-mails and chat. Works for me.

John Rodgers
B'ham, Alabam

On 8/31/2012 10:11 PM, Richard A Jones wrote:
>> It was fun last year, but 75% of my Faceplant friends are from high
>> school.  That was interesting and fun for a while, but I talk to my friends
>> on the phone or in emails.
>
> 75% of my high school friends must be dead.  I dropped out of
> high school in 1959....  What is this facebok thing you are
> writing about?  ;-)
>
> Richard
>