Ben Austen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He says one is about to get married.
He's been a rabbi at different congregations, but he tells me he now works as a chaplain at a hospital.
He likes it because he gets to tend to people of all religions.
Eddie guides me into the dining room.
Laid out on the table, there are all these photographs, nearly every one of them of us.
All right, I'm a little embarrassed of seeing all these things, Eddie.
Eddie's been preparing for this meeting.
We went to the same high school, too.
Our yearbook is open to my senior picture.
My wife, Danielle, also graduated high school with us.
Obviously, I kept in better touch with her.
Then, Eddie points to a faded photo I've never seen before.
It's of little kids in a classroom, around a table, eating cupcakes.
There's Eddie standing, and not far from him, me.
Both of us are smiling as wide as can be.