Friends,
First of all, I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve figured out how to enable the spell checker in this blogging tool.. I apologize to all of you who’ve been trying to make sense from my unchecked typing for the past several months. I hope that correct spelling won’t take away too much from the authenticity of what I try and write here. 🙂
It’s just before midnight and Diane and I are just back from Boston after a short and fun trip down to see my folks my sister and her kids and my aunt.
I really liked spending time with my niece Ellery and my nephew Jake.. I mentioned last night that I’d had an interesting audio experience yesterday.. Here’s what happened .. Baby Jake and I were hanging out by ourselves under the dinner table at about 9PM. The rest of the family was downstairs in the family room. I was talking to baby Jake, Jake Samuel actually, about life and about our Sam… I was thinking about how amazing the circle of life can be.. Our Sam leaves this world, and new baby Jake arrives.. it just keeps going. I was getting pretty emotional about it when at that exact moment, my cell phone … which is also an mp3 player.. starts playing a song.. it was ‘heady riser ‘ from the band Dispatch. Now.. that may not seem so strange.. but a) my phone was locked and was in my pocket, b) it’s pretty hard to play an mp3 on my phone it takes about 4 button clicks to make it happen,… and that’s only after the phone’s been unlocked with a password. This was either a really, really freaky electrical disturbance.. or some sort of sign from somewhere/someone else… Sam ? ,, the choice of song was pretty interesting.. here’s an excerpt from the song.
He will move to his position of power
To put things he has not seen
In a position to his dreams
He will not call ’till he know them true
And they come for the leaders but we say we never lead
They come for the believers but we say we never believe
They come for the healers but we say we never touch no hand
And they’ll come for us they’ll be no one left to stand
I do not know what to make of this.. In the past 4 weeks I’ve been surrounded my the most amazing set of strange coincidences.. all of which are around electrical equipment.. this including power failures, lights blowing out, lights blinking in buildings, street lights.. our car freaking out., steros going crazy… . and.. (this gives me chills just typing) … as I type this (11:58PM on Dec 8) .. the computer in our room just started playing music.. even though no-one is touching it. . Sometimes I think I’m losing my mind. but other folks are seeing this too. There are so many things around us that we don’t understand. I hear you Sam… I really do…
Let em talk a little about our day… it was nice and uneventful.. Just rolling around in family. We did a bunch of playing with baby Jake…
I watched my dad bring in wood.. He has his own system for stacking.. so helping him wasn’t even an option
I got chased around by my niece ellery. 
I got to watch my sister be a mom.. which is something I haven’t had much chance to do..
We all took a walk over to my folks neighbors Susie and Slater.. to see their chickens. My dad and I took Susie up to Sudbury to pick up her van and meet her son, Slater Jr.. who has C.P.
Here’s one of their roosters. 
The kids really liked seeing the chickens.. We had fun pulling them around in the garden cart. 
A bit later Mary and I wnet out for a run… that’s when we o our best talking. 
My Mom’s sister Aunt Sis showed up around 5.. Sis is visiting while her husband Phil goes skiing. It was a bonus getting to see her before we left.. so many relatives in such a short time. 
One goofy thing happened. My mom managed to back in to our car when she went out to pick up Sis… I was parked behind their garage.. The side of the car was crumpled up so I had to use a crowbar to be able to open the door. The last year has really changed me and my priorities.. some how this just seemed hilarious to me.. Our poor car needs some TLC next week.. It now needs a jump every time it starts, the GPS just stopped working .. and now it needs a new frnt let side panel.. We’re going to take it to the car spa net week for some rest and relaxation.. 
Tomorrow, Dec 9th is a day that Compassionate Friends does a candle lighting to remember loved ones. Compassionate Friends is a world wide organization set up to help folks through loss of a loved one. Every year on Dec 9th they ask everyone to light a candle at 7PM in their local timezone. When folks do that, it becomes a circle of candle flames moving around the earth. Please join us tomorrow and light a candle for Sam.. and other loved ones at 7PM.
For those of you who are local.. our friend Gretchen P. tells us that there will be a service at the Underhill Congregational church tomorrow night in conjunction with this event. If you’re interested. please give us a call tomorrow and we’ll put you in touch with the organizers.
-me