He could be here. I always think that when I arrive at a residency, looking around for a youngish middle-aged man, maybe round glasses and an earring, battered leather jacket and jeans, Geoff’s standard college outfit. I’m guessing it might have been his adult one as well, at least some of the time. He could be a visual artist or sculptor, I think, perhaps a curator or an art historian—maybe a writer, he was so good at that too.

And sometimes I find him---as I did in this session at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. I didn’t put it all together at first—that is often the way of these vivid synchronicities.