Today is the calm before the storm. There are fewer visitors here today but still a steady stream. The community is taking such good care of us. We’ve had friends cooking, cleaning, repairing, coordinating.I comforting. We will never forget this.    Today our familys start filtering in and we have to help them say goodbye to Sam. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone.. I also know it’s goign to be pretty hard.
    In the midst of our sorrow.. we’re noticing some cool stuff. We feel Sam everywhere. I want to write down two incidents just to capture them.

– One night while we were still in Florida, Max was walking between the respite house and the hospital. He suddenly felt Sam’s presence very strongly. He stopped and looked around and of course saw nothing. He asked Sam for a sign that it was him. At that instant, the street light across the street exploded… not dimmed, not went out, exploded with sparks…..

– Yesterday we all went to a very nice and very sad assembly at Sam’s school. The entire student body was in the gym to share memories and music for Sam. They have a fancy PA system that they use for events like this… about 5 min into the one hour program the PA just flipped out… the mike stopped working and there was a load noise in the background. After a few attempts of whacking the mike the hum stopped and the mike worked again.. until someone tried to speak… then it happened again. Once again.. they whacked the mike.. it started working.. until they tried to use it again.   They had to bring in a back up.   Max got up and told the family electrical disturbances story. (electical devices always freak out when I’m agitated.. I once blacked out Richmond after a minor traffic accident freaked me out) When Diane and I got up to speak.. I ended my piece with a statement of knowing that Sam was all around us. At that instant there was a huge BANG in the big PA system…. It was very cool

We feel you Sam ! We love you
-jc