11ish on Monday night. I’m just back from my trip to New York. Coming home always feels so good to me now.. I miss everyone so much when I’m gone. At the same time it’s harder now.. every time I walk into the house after being gone because I know that Sam won’t be here.. Oh Sam…
The trip down and back to New York was surprisingly easy. There’s lots of good time for thinking in the car. I find I really enjoy that quiet down time now. It really felt good to go to Bill’s house for Linda’s visiting hours. I now really understand why so many ot the people who where there for us after Sam’s passing had suffered some loss of their own before.. You really want to reach out to others to help.. It’s like a wave.. I think.
I woke this morning confused.. I’d stayed up late again blogging.. when my alarm went off, I rolled over and saw this
I couldn’t figure out for a few moments where I was.. then I remembered I was still at Ruchir and Rashi’s . They’d graciously let me stay in their daughter Isha’s room.. while Isha stayed in their room. It was strange waking up in a kid’s room. I went down stairs and had a great breakfast of rice, peas, potatoes and curry..
Every meal at Ruchir and Rashi’s is a gourmet feat. I really enjoyed my stay with them. Their kids their kids are so beautiful and Rashi’s parents are very cool. I took a few work calls then Ruchir and I had a great work/personal catch up session.. He’s an amazing guy
They’re Hindu… but they dig the Buddha too
Casa Puri
Around 12 I headed over to IBM Somers for a few meetings with friends there. I had a great meeting with my friend Willow and her colleagues in communications. Willow is going to have a baby in December. It was cool seeing her pregnant. I forgot to smuggle my camera in to get a picture.. darn. We talked about some ideas about better ways to share the cool stuff IBM does with our employees and with kids in schools. I think we actually came up with some good ideas.. I then went up and met with some of my friends in the Academy office.
After that.. I got in the car and headed back towards Vermont…it was pouring so the driving was a little slow.. I had good music.. so I didn’t mind much. After several hours I pulled off to grab a bite to eat and realized I was in Northahampton Mass, the home of Smith College where my mother went to school. I grabbed a sandwich and drove to the campus.. I’d never been their before and was surprised how sam and how very beautiful it was. I ran back to the car to get a SamStone to place there.. As I was wandering around the green looking for a place to put the stone I noticed a big ornamental lamp on a handsome old building. As I looked at the lamp, it went off then immediately back on and stayed lit. “Thank you Sam:.. I climbed up on the stair railing, stood on my tip toes on the rail and placed the stone on a rock curlicue thingy above the door… It was definitely the right place for it..
After I placed the stone I called my mom to tell her I was at her alma matter. She got a kick out of that. The rest of the drive was uneventful.. I got a couple of good calls , listened to some good music and thought about my family..
I got hoe pretty relaxed to find the house full of kids.. It was nice coming back to that warmth
Josh
Brendan
Andrew
Carrio
Jordan and his eveil ferminted lillypad juice
Diane painting SamStones.
I’m pretty beat.. time for sleep. More tomorrow. G’nite all.. g’nite Sam.
-me