2 Pairs Of Brothers Catch Up After 40 years

The Lavallé and the Edwards brothers meet again after 40 years. Between the four of us, we have 160 years of memories to catch up on observed Bertrand. Collective memory is powerful; within minutes of meeting at the Café, each of us was retelling fragments that came to mind. It felt like the 5 blind men describing an elephant, each describing a different part of the animal, until they realized they were describe the same one.

I had forgotten so much detail, I love this get together. We reconstructed our "winter astronomy expedition" where we nearly choked on the fumes when Gaétans' jacket caught fire in the tent at -20. The sky was cloudy.

Before going downtown, Alex and I laughed rummaging through the first photographs I ever made recovering a funny shot of Gaétan goofing off. Bertrand taught me all the basic photography skills of the day, smelly chemicals and all. In fact it seems we had a little "scientific community" going at the time, exploring the knowledge of the day.

Predictably, I suppose, we lived out our lives as they started. Our interests seem carved in stone from those teen age years forward. Bertrand and I ran off a quick list of our interests and activities over the years, and found them overlapping again; travel, teaching technology, software study, tracking astronomical events, personal fitness, photography, to name a few. I guess we really do have a lot in common.

Discussion turned to the future, reconnecting our lives with a few new threads. Now that the business of youth is out of the way, a new more relaxed plan takes shape.

Thank you for making this happen guys, I was worth every minute.