Then the sound reached me, an explosive clap.
And while I haven't spoken to my former neighbor for decades, word did reach me a few years back that he had achieved greatness apparently, after graduating high school he got very into weightlifting, then powerlifting in particular.
It's been a while since I experienced the wonder of discovery and the innocent, naive conviction that music really could change a person's life, because a band's music reached me on a profound, emotional level.
And within 24 hours an online ballot reached me from a town clerk in Ann Arbor, Michigan, complete with instructions to use black, not colored, ink.
I was rescued, in my first year of college, by a choir of renegade women writers whose voices reached me like a rope thrown through my ire and confusion.
If the caller has reached you at a bad time, tell the caller "you have reached me at a bad time".
So I did a little digging around, and over the weekend word reached me through a friend in the music industry that the delay has nothing to do with technical problems, as some have suggested.
He writes: "The truth of my soul was that the drama of Colombia reached me like a remote echo and moved me only when it spilled over into rivers of blood.
An unconfirmed rumour has reached me via a reliable source that LinkedIn is in talks with media giant News Corporation over a possible buyout in January 2008.
When I poked a little at the current "word of mouth" buzz marketing craze, word has reached me that a number of bloggers said I was "out of touch".
