“Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.”

– Mary Schmich: Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young (a.k.a.”Wear Sunscreen”) | The Chicago Tribune

A lot has been written about attending college reunions, and as the team has been meeting, we keep coming back to our reasons why we gather.

Reunion is one of the last analog things we have in an increasingly digital world, and sometimes it seems like a miracle just how long we’ve all known one another.

What I Learned at My 40th College Reunion – Washington Post

“But the deepest impact of a weekend of intense conversation was profoundly intimate. Reunions are a form of time travel, when who we are now gets acquainted with who we were then.”

Facing Reunion Fears – Brown Alumni Magazine

“Reunions, it turns out, are chances to unburden ourselves of memory, to reconfigure and rewrite it with wisdom gained the hard way, along the way.”

Seven Excuses for Not Attending Reunions and Seven Reasons Why You Should – Reed Magazine

“Many of us live humdrum lives in which our passions are not engaged in our work for our daily bread, and some of us direct our passions to creativity outside the workplace: paintings, growing vegetables, volunteering, raising kids. That’s life, and it’s okay to feel okay about it. Reunions is a good place to start.”