Today was a good, quiet day. We had heavy snow all day, so it felt very good to be indoors. I worked hard all day and time passed quickly. It still take much longer for me to get anything done. One thing I like about my work now is that folks are so much more willing to share their personal stories with me. At one point today I had a great IM conversation with my friend Sybil down in Austin. She shared with me a wonderful song that her friends had written for her when her fiancée passed away 2.5 years ago. I’ll share it with folks as soon as I get the words.After talking to Sybil, I couldn’t really go beack and do work.-work.. I sifted gears and spent a few hours working on Sam’s SaStone website. I really enjoyed spending a few hours staring at pictures of Sam.. even if they were surrounded by HTML.
Before I knew it, it was evening. We’d made plans to go back to GreenMountainGymnastics again.. We all showed up around 7. it was an absolute hoot !. The kids.. all friends of gabes and Sam’s are all natural athletes.. They did the most amazing flips. Corks and gainers. It was like something you’d pay to see ! I loved watching how the kids worked out routines.. here’s a group flip that Gabe organized.
The instructor, Ely, is a great guy. He’s a social worker in real life.. we spent a long time talking about dying and healing and gymnastics.. An interesting mix.. My one goal for the evening was to do a backflip. I’m proud to say that I did a few.. even though I still need to work on my form
.. I also took this movie by doing a flip with the camera in my hand.. It makes me quesy just watching it.
After gymnastics, everyone came over for late dinner and ice cream. There was a pretty good size crow.. It was pretty tame though.. most of the adults gravitated to the dinner table to work on coloring Mandala’s It’s very relaxing and cheaper than wallpaper.
Speaking of drawing.. here’s a picture of Sam’s friend Nate’s new Tattoo.. He had Sam’s Mayan glyphs inked on his arm… (with his parent blessing)..
