The Burning Bush
thoughts from a cunning linguist

May 10, 2004

New Friends, Old Friends and Patty Griffin

Last night, I went to NYC to see Patty Griffin, a fabulous contemporary folk diva at the Town Hall. She did not disappoint and I came away with a shiny new CD. I found out she was coming to NYC because a friend of mine from Halifax, the MADwoman, was coming to town with her girlfriend to see Patty Griffin play. So I rustled up a couple of my friends from here and we headed into the show last night. While I was there, trying to hunt down the MADwoman and her girlfriend, I ran into another friend of mine who started in the graduate program here with me. Now, technically, this last person I ran into at the concert is my "oldest" friend of the lot. I met her in 1997. I also met the two friends who came to the concert with me for the first time in 1997. But somehow, I think of MADwoman as being an older friend, even though I have known her for only about two years. And, I think of the friends who came to the concert with me as "new" friends. They are the same people I went with to the March on Washington a few weeks ago. Maybe it's that people seem to be old friends when they've known you not for long periods of time, but when they come to know you more intimately.

Posted by Bush Whacker at May 10, 2004 12:13 AM
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