Ah, to reconnect with former colleagues! It is straightforward for some and difficult for others. Reconnecting may offer undiscovered opportunities in one’s career, but is it possible to link up with the past in a substantive way? This blog shares our experience reconnecting: it is the story of the collaboration between two former university students who reconnected after 30 years and agreed to rebuild their relationship and share their networks with each other and their students. Reunions are memories, as Michael D. Jackson, the founder of existential anthropology (a field of anthropology that incorporates existentialism and the open-endedness of life projects), [...]