I took it very easy today. I had to to take my car in for servicing .. so I drove to the Toyota place an took my early meeting’s outside in the sun while my car was getting it’s manicure.. It was pretty peaceful working up in the small grassy plot above the car dealership.. no-one knew where I was.. it was quiet., the sun was shining.. work should always be like this. When  my car was ready to go , I went to the window to pay  and the woman their asked me if I knew Sam. She asked because of the Sam pin I was wearing. I told her I was Sam’s father.. and she told me all of the connections she had  to Sam. This happens to me all the time.. everywhere I go, people know Sam’s story.. I like seeing that.

    I had a lunch meeting with Julie, my time management coach…even as  don’t laugh.. I am a million times better about time management now than before I began working with her. .I was telling Julie how hard I was working trying to come up with ‘my next plan’.. ie/ what’s my plan for directing my life after the lessons I’ve learned from Sam’s passing. Her questions  lead me to one of those ah-ha moments when I realized  that it isn’t necessarily about ‘working hard’ .. it’s about being open to the inspiration which will come after putting your intentions out there in the world.. Dian has been saying this to me in a loving way for months.. I’ve been trying to really hear that… but what I think sunk in today was that it’s really OK for me to take it easy and wait for inspiration that will come.. rather than  felling guilty that I’m not being more productive more directed  now. I’ve been working my tail off for nearly 30 years so I have come to associate leisure or rest or ‘taking it easy’  with guilt and laziness .    I thin I just understood that that was stupid.. or certainly stupid right now.. I always remember one really memorable conversation with Sam where he was really trying to understand why I felt I needed to always work so hard. I know this sounds   I think Sam’s message really sunk in today.. I even wrote it on my ‘Palm pilot’

 

      After lunch I went and picked up some Liquid nitrogen at Huan welding for a friend’s science project.. then I met my friends Paul and Mark at Mexacali for a work meeting and a beer.. Now that’s a good workday

.. After that meeting I headed out to Homers to play with the new robot router.. It’s so very cool. Homer was using it to cut out lettering I plastic. I

t was amazing to watch it work. We plan to reinforce the table and then give it to MMU for use in the wood shop. It’s so cool to watch it run . I think the kids at school are really going to love it.

    By the time I got home, Sam’s old band, Black Night Vengeance was at the house practicing.. Aren’t they just lovely lads…

   Shortly after  that m  Diane and I headed over to Sumner’s to pick up  a passel  of kids to take them to see Spiderman.. It’s a longggggggggggggg movie.. and pretty good. It got a little confusing.. but during the confusing parts, I thought of Sam..

    Right now.. I’m thinking of going to sleep. G’nite all !

 

-jc