former Classmates

I'm coming up on the five year reunion with my acupuncture class. As with anything, it's interesting to see what experience they've compiled over the last half decade coupled with their Master of Acupuncture degree. You can search through the web lookers and see who has what kind of practice these days. With any group, there is the bell curve distribution. Of the forty in class of Sept '03, 10% have a thriving practice and I'll define that as seeing more than 25 patients per week in an office setting outside their home. I misss them.

My Name Badge

     Each student got a 1 x 3 blue name badge when we started to the Tai Sophia Institute acupuncture school. It was a pin-on plastic with white letters. I just threw mine away about a week ago, of course. Our acupuncture class started out with 40 students, a large class, maybe the largest class the school had seen in thirty plus years.
     And, it became quickly evident that not all were meant to finish the 4 year program, at least not at the same time. So as each student left the program, either dropping back a class or flunking out (which was rare) or leaving through other avenues, I wrote their name on the badge's back as a way for me, for all of us to remember them.
     I remember referring to the badge when in school, reminding myself of them.

2,000/160

What is this about being real? About doing life in front of everyone all the time?