So… Now begins our week of remembrance to mark the one year anniversary of Sam’s passing
We have several things planned this week in honor, memory
and celebration of our wonderful son, brother and friend.
We want to let folks know what’s up so you can participate either in person or in spirit with us..
We can not mark Sam’s passing with a single day. Tuesday the 20th marks the anniversary of Sam’s accident. We know that Sam’s spirit left his body within moments of being hit.. The 21st marks the day that he was declared brain dead, so that is the day we mark legally as the day of his death. By the end of the 22nd Sam’s heart was in another’s body keeping her alive. Each of those events brings its own memories .
Here’s what we plan to do this week. Please pass this info around to friends who may not be reading this on the blog.
Tuesday the 20th
This will be a day for our family to come together. We don’t have much planned. We’ll be at our house laying low and thinking of Sam.
Wednesday the 21st
We would love all of you who are close to Sam and to us to come and share part or all of the day with us. You are welcome here even if you don’t know us well, yet need the connection with Sam for yourself. We have several things planned for the day. Please come.
Noon – Weather permitting, several of us are planning a trip up to the Bolton fire tower… where we released some of Sam’s ashes last year… we’ll meet at the base lodge at noon.
5 PM – we’ll meet back at our house for some quiet remembrances, community and a pot luck. Please bring warming soups, bread and/or salad to share. We’ll be playing music and making SamStones.
7PM – Please join us in lighting a candle for Sam. There’s no significance to the time.. it’s just a time where our friends around the world can join us in lighting a candle for Sam and sending him love. If you can be with us, that is wonderful… if not, please light a candle for Sam on your own..
7:30 PM on – We will have a bonfire, again weather permitting, You can join us to add something to the fire to mark the year as a remembrance of Sam.. it can be a message, a story, a poem, a song, artwork, slide show, anything. If you can’t join us in person, please add a story to the SamStones story log here. or add a comment on Sam’s Myspace . I’ll be putting copies of both of those into the fire. We’ll be holding a ceremony I learned at the Solstice a two years ago with friends in Austria.. we’ll make a wish for Sam, ourselves or our world then jump over the fire to make it so.
Again, If you do come, please bring something for the potluck. Chairs to sit on around the fire, an offering to burn, musical instruments, songs, art anything you’d like to share. If you have questions please call us at 434-3576
Thursday the 22nd
Thanksgiving morning, we’ll be joining our friends the Williams in their 3/6K walk/run in memory of their son Jarred. We’ll all be running/walking in our Sam shirts. I’m not quite sure of the times, but I’ll post them when I get them. Please show up an help us support the Jarred Williams Foundation which helps raise money for families of kids with brain cancers.
We’ll be doing Thanksgiving with friends.. so we’re being well cared for…
Friday the 23rd
Friday will bring some down time. My family will all be coming from Boston and some of our good friends from Diane’s home town will also be coming in… Not much planned for the day but leftovers.
Saturday the 24th
On Saturday, we’ll be holding the 2nd annual Sam Cohn Memorial concert at the West Monitor Barn on route 2 in Richmond. You can find details here. The concert will be a fund raiser for the Sam Cohn Foundation and will feature a ton of local bands. It will be a great show ! We’ll need some volunteers to help with parking, running the door, serving pizza/drinks, set-up and clean up. We’re having a planning meeting tomorrow at 6PM at our house on logistics for the concert. If you want to volunteer please show up.. or let us know if you’re available to help.
It’s going to be a hard week .. and a good week.. I can feel both . Thank you all for the wonderful love and support you’ve given us over this past long and tough.. and somehow beautiful year. We will never forget it.. we can’t…
Love you all.. Love you Sam..
-me
PS. Remember, if you can’t join us this week in person, please add a story to the SamStones story log here. or add a comment on Sam’s Myspace . We’d love to hear from every one of you. Thanks !