Facebook is great for finding people you haven’t spoken with in forever. In the last couple of months, I reconnected with my very best friend from my high school days; we lost touch shortly after college as our lives moved in radically different directions. Just a couple of weeks ago, I connected with another high school friend, someone who helped me through a transitional phase when I was straightening out my life after the major part of my rebel phase; I finally got to thank her, which I’d regretted never doing for 25 years. I’ve reconnected with my good friend from college, the one who started me down my path to the marriage equality fight, and got to show him this essay I wrote in which he was a key protagonist. And I reconnected with another close college friend who I lost touch with close to 20 years ago when she moved to Israel.

This is the original version of Michael W. Smith’s “Friends”, which was a duet with Amy Grant on his first album. There are better videos of the new version he did a few years ago, but I still prefer the original:

We’re not quite old enough to be the people in this song, but I’ve loved this song for a long, long time:

And a classic rock track: