It was a weekend for renewing connections.. yesterday was a great day for hanging out with friends.. we had about 50 folks milling through the house at one point. May friends of Max’s. gabes and even Sam’s..

Last night the fireworks were great..I ran into Pete O. and my old freind and Mentor Terry K who’s in visiting form Schen-zen China. The Lawlors came buy and gave us all sparklers.. .

Afterwards we still had a bunch of folks in the house. I took advantage of the impromptu party to have a quick 3 generation drink with Max…

This morning cousin-in-law (son -of-great-aunts-sister) Billy G. stoppped by to say hi to my folks. It was fun hearing Billy and my folks triangulate on the common parts of our family. I’v ebene really enjoyeign getting to know Billy better throough our work on the Echo center board and .. .more recently… the hBurning Man Time Cycle project. He’s a great creative maker of things !

Abut 1is, my folks decided it was time to head back to boston.. so they gatherd up neice Betsy.. Its been really cool having her here.. she’s so easy to hang out with !

We had to take the obligatory 300 pictures before anyone could drive away..

We had a couple of hours lull which we spent outside doing yard work.. then the next wave of friends showed up. This evening we were really fortunate to have a visit from my old friend Saul and his wife Barry. Saul and I went to graduate school 20 years ago (is that possible ?). In fact .. we worked in an office where we  always had a jewish guy, an indian. and a tall blond guy  for three generations.. I took the jewish spot in the office when Saul graduated.  Saul adnd Barry were on ‘mom and dad camp’ after dropping kids off at camp. It was really great catching up with them..   We spent most of the enveing talkign abut life, kids, and ‘do you remember’… ? Saul and I know many of the same folks from CUM and in our industry..

OK.. it’s abotu 11:30 and I can hardly stay awake.. Time for bed.. more tomorrow. Nite all.. Nite Sam !
-me