Monthly Archives: May 2010

Friday night – ships in the night

I’ve been on the road for a large part of the last two weeks.. and now Diane is down  visiting her new yoga buddies at her freind  Sister Cecelia’s monestary in CT.  I’ve only seenher for 3 days out of the last 10  and I really miss her !  (but at least I get the comfy side of the bed tonight)   Gabe has a couple of frieds over.. not much else goign on..

Today was a mix of stuff.. I think the high point was seeing Mike M at lunch. He works at Mexicali.. He showed my his Sam ink today… It means alot to me when people remember Sam in that way.

After a rocky afternoon.. I headed home to help Gabe make his shirt for the dance tonight… First I went and bought the shirts.. then Gabe and I printed the image from our friend Aaron’s clothes line.. called Oddmenout.. THen Gae cut the images out into a stencil.. We then taped in on one of the shirts and Gabe spray painted the image..

The paint was still wet when Will and Victor picked gabe up for the dance.. but he took it anyway.. it dried on the way to the dance.. Perfect Cohn ending.  last minute.. but very creative !

As soon as Gabe left, I took of for Homers’ . hadn’t seen Homer, Mary or Raye for many weeks..> Raye’s in town with 15 of her Rainbow friends.. they’re all such cool people.. they’re fixing u this old bus.. they’re now all camping in the woods behind Homer’s.. They had this great food and music going out in the woods.. I wish I oculd have stayed longer.. !

I only could stay at Homers for an hour.. but it was a great visit.. as I left, Homer showed me histhe current stated of the Figor router he’s been repairing.. It’s pretty amazing that Homer has gotten this thing working.. It was lying around half constructed when homer bought it at auction. I helped repair the electrical system in it in a small way.. by helping omer identify and solve a grounding problem.. THis thing is goign to be amazing !

 

Well that’s it for my day.. hope yours was interesting.. more tomorrow.

Nite IDiane.. namaste.. Namaste Sam
-me

Thursday nigt – day images

Long, interesting day.. about 8 hours of phone meetings.. and a trip fback from NYC..

As we left Max’s place at 6AM I commented that my suitcase seemed a little light..I looked inside and most of my clothes were missing..  as we retraced our steps back to the car, I found all my clothes.. and my kindle piled neatly salong the sidewalks where they’d fallen the night before.. I got them all back..

I dropped Max at the Subway and he went off to the airport to catch his plane as I drove off to work…

On the way home, I stopped in New Rochelle to do a show for the Kids at Young Middle School .. It was for soem type of Kid News Program.. It was a great grou0 of kids.. I’m not s’possed to show their pictures.. but I can show my friend Grace and our skinny friend..

5 and 4 phoen meetings later I was back in VT with my family.. One interesting scene along the way.. a car engulfed in flames.. noone (thankfully) inside.. As I drove past therier was a big explosion and a bunch of junk bounced  off my car….

And that was about it for my day..
Now some sleep…
nite all.. nite Sam
-me

Wednesday night – different kind of day

I had a different kind of day than I had planned.. but it worked out better than the day that I had ordered. I left my folks house around 4:15 this morning en route to NY.. I managed to find folks in Europe to talk to most of the way down.. so the time passed prodictivly.. I had intended to attend a meeting with a bunch of friends in Somers.. but.. when I got here, I found out that I’d been slammed with about 5 new meetings with folks who happened to be in the same site.. so instead of hanging out with the friends I’d intended to be with.. I ended up hanging out with a different group of friends.. At firest I was cranky that my perfectly planned day had been disrupted.. It took me about half of the day to realize that the day I got was at least as good as the day I had wanted.. once I opened up to it , I found that this new day was at least as fun. productive and personally satisfying.. as that never to be had day I’d set up…
   It was all in the letting go…

Right now, I’m letting go of consciousness.. more tomorrow !
nite folks, nite sam
-me

Tuesday night – in my parents house.

Busy day today .. spent juggling several jobs at once. I was down here  in Boston for two reasons. I was here to attend the final project review of a group of Olin college students who did some really excellent funded research work for us.. and to help a friend make a movie about smart asset tracking.. in this case, the asset was garbage.. This group at MIT is instrumenting everyday trasha with cell phone connected gps recivers and using that to watch the ‘removal chain’ of junk from our lives. the results are really fascinating.
here’s a map of the path a paper cup tool after it was tossed in a garbage bin in Seattle..

What would happen if wereally knew where are garbage went.. would we consume differntly ? I tend to think we would…

Anyway..I’m in my folks house,  I need to wake and drive at 4AM.. so I better go to sleep soon.
More tomorrow..

Nite all. Nie Sam
-me