July 18, 2019

Morning coffee with Bill Ashton. I have a pretty good summary of his life since he graduated in, I think, 1990. Everyone’s life seems knottier and more full of incident than mine. He is exactly the same person, with an overlay of politeness more noticeable than it was back in the day. I’d forgotten he was a disciple of AW. To have both AW and me in one’s pantheon seems almost inconceivable, but there you are. We talked about the ways in which we are satisfied with ourselves as teachers, whatever others may think.