{"id":9945,"date":"2014-10-03T03:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2014-10-01T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:39:35","slug":"o-magnum-mysterium-and-an-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/o-magnum-mysterium-and-an-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"O Magnum Mysterium and an Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PKGBuwISjCg<\/p>\n

(Play this while you read this post.)<\/p>\n

I had a pen pal for a couple of years in high school. I met Karl at a music camp and he played the trombone. I can’t remember details about our meeting or what started our conversation that lasted so many years. He lived in Washington and we saw each other at summer music camps and during a few visits he made to family in the area. There were long walks and sad\u00a0goodbyes, one at a train station where his sister placed coins on the tracks for a keepsake to give to me. The bulk of our friendship was built with ink, paper and stamps. We wrote long letters, but eventually I stopped writing. He came to BYU and we met\u00a0several times during our years there.<\/p>\n

Karl is an accomplished musician and has been a member of the President’s Own Marine Band for 14 years. The band came on tour to our high school last week and I was able to talk to him for a while during intermission.\u00a0This is the song they played right after we talked, and it was the perfect accompaniment to the bright light I felt about my youth and this friendship I made through music. I am grateful for this friend who was a real gentleman to me.<\/p>\n

I hope my children find (and be) good and decent people like this to fill their memories in their high school years. No one seems to write letters anymore, which is a shame. Some of my favorite relationships have been held together by writing.<\/p>\n

Do you want to see\u00a0a picture?<\/p>\n

\"1-Karl<\/a>
Richard surprised me and took this picture after I left the concert. Thankfully he had Daniel pose beside Karl because that would just be awkward to see a selfie of my husband and my old high school crush posing together. \ud83d\ude00<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PKGBuwISjCg (Play this while you read this post.) I had a pen pal for a couple of years in high school. I met Karl at a music camp and he played the trombone. I can’t remember details about our meeting or what started our conversation that lasted so many years. He lived in Washington and … Continue reading O Magnum Mysterium and an Old Friend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}