Moon your friends.

Dear Candy,

Feliz Dia del Amigo! In Argentina, Friend’s Day is a day for hanging out with friends one sees on a regular basis (in America, we call this “Saturday”), but also for contacting seldom-met friends, from whom one may be separated by time or space. Basically, it’s my new favorite holiday, and I’m sorry I didn’t think of it before Enrique Febbraro, the Argentine teacher, musician, and dentist (como se dice “Renaissance Man?”) who lobbied to turn the anniversary of the first lunar landing (20 July, 1969) into an international celebration of friendship. His argument: Because on this day, the whole world had been friends with Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins.

So, just as the Apollo 11 astronauts traveled through space, tonight I travel through cyberspace. In the name of friendship. And humanity. And space.

Your friend,
Sandy