If my friends and family were dots on a picture of the world and I joined those dots together, the line they would create would go right around the world. From here in Taiwan to New Zealand and from there across the Indian Ocean to South Africa, thereafter making a short hop to Mozambique and then a skip to Tanzania. From there it would move up the continent to Sweden and then across the sea to England before heading off across the Atlantic to Canada. A long stretch across the Pacific would bring it back to me.

The dots include teachers, statisticians, secretaries, miners, engineers, truck drivers, dentists, store keepers, factory managers, bookkeepers, printers, insurance agents, seamstresses, professors, creative designers, municipal workers, postal workers and development workers. And all these dots have a range of personal qualities I admire and appreciate: strength, gentleness, determination, confidence, intelligence, beauty, adventure, humor, sexiness, motivation, and the fact that you read my webpage.

And none of you are mere acquaintances, the "Oh, it's nice to see you, call me sometime" sort of friend. You are people whose emails I open with a sense of excitement and read with a pleasure that makes me wish I was wherever you are. The thought occurs to me that if we were ever able to all gather together in one place, you would be as fascinated by each other as I am by you.

If I am one day judged by the company I keep, I may be convicted of having too interesting a group of friends.

11 July 2002

Dion Marc Delport

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