It had been a typically busy, hectic day. My thoughts were still with those earlier appointments when, just moments after arriving home, the phone rang. The voice that answered my distracted greeting whiplashed me into the present, then to the past, years ago, when he was a student and I, a teacher. Memories flew to the fore as I stumbled from unknowing to recognition, remembrance. “It’s been a long time,” the voice said. “I’ve been thinking of you, and reflecting on my life,