Been reshuffling some travel plans due to The Plague (alas) as well as contemplating what else I have going on next year and I’m feeling some kind of way about “I’m going to see you someday” really being the internet era’s twin to “I’m going to see you again”
I’ve said it to so many people over the years, and in so many cases it has turned into first-time hugs that have swept me off my feet in hotel rooms and convention centers and on road trips. And I know in my heart it will again, because there are still people I haven’t seen yet, and it really is a declaration of love.
How incredibly human to say “I want us to be together” and how incredibly powerful that, these days, it’s so easy – and yet still so meaningful – to say to people we’ve met without even meeting.
There’s a line in one of our songs, that Scribe wrote for me back when we still lived in different states and only saw each other a few times a year, that I think about a lot because it just obliterated me back then and it still obliterates me now, even though she and I get to spend so much more time together these days, because it really is how it feels to have people you love who are so far away from you, and I have so many people that’s true of.
The verse goes:
And someday when these distances are kinder We’ll find the same untrodden line to roam. And however brief the time that our melodies combine The world resolves. it feels like coming home
And it’s that penultimate line that just consistently destroys me. I can apply it to so many people I love, but framing the small times we get to see each other as something that’s beautiful no matter what – and for that matter, the time we’re apart as a part of that story – is a lot to take in.
I think that promising “I’ll see you again” and “I’ll see you someday” are some of the most human things we can say, and even though it’s bittersweet, I’m so glad I live at a time where I have the chance to say them so often.



















