Coffee in Zion

Meet Teresa. Teresa was my undergrad internship supervisor. She is an amazing school social worker and I used to spend hours with her in her Ford Explorer traveling between schools watching her put out metaphoric fires and reminding her to eat.

She was my supervisor during a pretty difficult time in my life, and being the intuitive social worker she is, she picked up on that. For the five years since my internship ended, we have kept up routine coffee chats anytime I return to Chattanooga.

I am convinced that the Universe wants Teresa and I to get together every few months. I wasn't planning on being in Chattanooga again for six months, but she made a trip to Wisconsin to see her family. I took the day off work today and met her in the middle. The middle being Zion, IL which, according to Wikipedia is one of the few cities in the world to have been completely planned out prior to building.

We met at a great little cafe named Its All Good. Our meetings seem to have a natural life of 3 hours. This time was the same. Long enough to discuss politics, religion, alternative medicine, and work out some issues in my personal/professional life. I'm lucky to know Teresa.