Reunions

It says at very bottom right hand corner of my computer screen that today is the 14th of April 2021. So what, you might think? The actual date has little significance for me. I know it means we are 2021 years beyond the death of Jesus Christ, and as far as I know the 14th of April signifies the same day in every yearly cycle that the sun and earth are in the same positions in their revolutions. There's a lot of mathematics and physics in this but men smarter than I have worked it out. The clock and calender were invented, the computer was invented, and now I know what day it is. There's a rail of connection in this with others, putting us all on the same lifetrain, from which we alight at different points.

It is more than 40 years since I was in the Greta football team that won the premiership in 1980. The scheduled 40 year reunion was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic and is being held on Saturday the 1st of May. At great logistical inconvenience due to my recent relocation to South Australia, and the various associated tasks with setting up the new residence, it's my intention to attend this reunion. There's an RSVP address on the invitation but no date, so I'll reply that I'm likely to attend should it be possible, and rely that I can turn up, or not, on the day. The pull is strong to meet my old teammates in our advancing age, and to visit the Greta environment, of which I have fond memory.

A more formal invitation, to a "50 Years Chapter Lunch", to all Camberwell Grammar School Alumni who left in 1971 or before, has an RSVP date of the 23rd of April for function date 2nd May 2021. Could it be possible for me to be at the Greta lunch on the Saturday and the CGS lunch on the Sunday? I've heard of going to great lengths for a free feed but that might be going a bit far, literally. I have 9 days to think on this, accepting "day" being the word given to the time it takes the Earth to do a rotation, relating to the calender. 

There has also been talk of another 50 year reunion, that of the Ormond Church of Christ premiership team of which I was a participant in 1971. I spent 3 years in that team and the pull to attend would be strong, to meet up with some very good people in our advanced years, most of whom  I have not seen since that happy phase in my life. So far there's been no date set for this other than "later in the year if it can be arranged". Later in the year seems feasible, I will have had more time to settle in Sth Australia and perhaps ready for a trip home to Victoria. I don't feel ready for an early May trip away.

"Time, Time, Time, What has become of me." I think those words were in a Simon and Garfunkel song. " But look around, the leaves are brown, and the sky, is a hazy shade of winter."