We talked about what had happened to create our most fragile seasons, and what repaired them. We talked about the kinds of people and personalities and attention that we might find ourselves vulnerable to, if we weren’t careful. We apologized to one another for the things we did, over the years, to allow distance to stretch; and we talked about what shores up that distance, what ways of living and interacting help us connect in deep ways, keep the vulnerabilities from growing too great.
