Triangulate...Part 3

My reading public has spoken! (and reminded me) I have left you hanging on the Traingulate thread. Bad, bad blogger. (Rule #2 of blogging...always do something if you've told the world you're going to do it)

OK...I'm publishing without photos 'cause I didn't find the photos this weekend and probably won't for a week or two. I'll add 'em when I get 'em.


Part 3 of my traingulation thread goes back to an odd, happy occurence of the weekend of the Scrapped! premiere.

Here's a picture taken at our best man's wedding. Chris and Mary You can tell from the picture that this was the late 80s, early 90s, right? This wedding occurred over a Christmas holiday in Appleton, Wisconsin. The maid of honor? Her name is Deb. And Chris and Mary had arranged for Charlie and I, Deb and her husband Mike, and another couple, Victor and Sara, to stay in a home during the wedding. Friends of theirs were out of town and we had this large old home to stay in all-together over that long weekend.
We kind of bonded. Even though we had no reason to stay in touch with Deb and Mike and Victor and Sara (they were Mary's friends, not Chris'), we did. Why did we all bond? I think because we are all Christians who take the call of God seriously, but not ourselves. (Does that make sense?) We can talk on many levels and it just clicks. Really.

So here's what happend the weekend of Scrapped!.


1) Friday night, Victor and Sara came over to see us. What is odd about this, is that they live in England. They are missionaries for Wycliffe, and Victor does hecka' cool work on his Mac designing fonts. His most famous work so far? An "extended Latin/Roman" font called Gentium. I have used this font in my scrapping before! (Translators use laptops in the field, and they need these extended fonts to do their work.) Anyway, Victor and Sara were in the country on "leave" and this was the only night that would work for us to get together.

2) Unbeknownst to me, while I had talked to Sara about arranging a night to see them, Charlie had talked to Chris and Mary about seeing them. They live in Kentucky. They come north once each year to visit Mary's family. On the way home, they were swinging through the cities to see friends...including us. Charlie set up an appointment for us to see them on Sunday afternoon. Odd that visits with Victor and Sara and Chris and Mary would happen the same weekend. Kentucky and England to Minnesota and busy schedules all lining up like that.

Charlie and I talked about how weird it is that we see Victor and Sara and Mary and Chris once a year when they live so far away. The last couple from the original eight? Deb and Mike. They live in Hopkins. So go figure...we see them the least.

3) So guess who I ran into at the Scrapped! Movie premiere? Deb and Mike. They are friends with Wes, the Scrapped! Movie guy. Is that weird, or what? The eight folks who have eleven kids aged 20 to 5, live in two states and two countries, all coverged and mingled (although not all 8 of us together) that one weekend in August.
Very cool. Very serendipitous.

Here's to old friends and good friends, and cozy friends and the odd circumstances that bring all together. Triangluation part 3. No one famous, no name dropping, just coolness