We met again Along with my love And walked through the city, this city, another city, Montreal pulling him back and the thought of that train lurching in the middle of December chills me to the bone
We talked And talked And laughed
As an adult, I managed the pain Of saying goodbye again
Trimming a word here from a Closing that might have triggered despair
I will see him again, I imagine And we will dwell in moments
Moments separated by time Marching onwards, a patient soldier Drifting, fleeting Yet I, of this time, will not be the same
The impassioned release from the cyclical nature of progress This is over This has been achieved through discipline The older I become The less I want to be understood But rather to understand
Time is time And he is gone And I am happy with that thought
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
