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Sunday night- gradmemorialrun

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Great day.. too sleepy to blog about it though.. We had a really nice party tonight to celebrate Max’s graduation, mark Sam’s 19th birthday and Ian’s first marathon. There were a ton of people here.. I’t about 1 AM and the crowd is thinning out..

 

The morning was focused on getting Ian to the Marathon.. Everyone was up and out around 7:00 which is amazing.  I stayed at the house and got ready for tonight.

 

I didn’t see the race, but deb had my camera.. Here’s some random place on the course.. note the weather.

hey, there’s Ian !

THere he is again !

Ian finished with a good time.. (I don’t know wat it was).. he felt great !.

e got home and showed me what he’d drawn on his legs with sharpgy

one for Dylan and one for Sam.

Folks started showing up around 7. we had a cake for each theme.. What a circle of life….Happy, sad, insane…

Not sure how many folks were there.. but I think we might have had a bout 100 trough the course of the eveing..a great cross section of folks.. there was lots of love around..

We  started with a red bull toast for Sam.

then made ice cream sundaes for everyone.

We sang a happy/sad happy birthday for Sam

then we all went out to the barn and watched Max’s two thesis project movies.. he did the camera, directing ad wrote the  movie in both. They are really excellent.. I was so proud of him !

Can you imagine a more diverse reason to get together ? I can’t.. but that’s life !

 

night all, nite sam !

-me

 

Saturday – Sam’s 19th birthday

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Sam,
Today would have been your 19th birthday… it’s still unbelievable to me that you’re not here with us now. We miss your shining smile, your mischief, your goofiness.. Your still so much part of our lives.

Today mom, max, gabe chai satori an i took a hike just to hang out together and think of you.. We went up the catamount trail.. It was warm and muggyy.. it reminded us of Costa Rica.. We talked about how much cooler Vermont would be if we just had a few dinosaurs.. or at least a few monkeys…

 

 

We found some cool places for samstones on our walk today.. one was under a waterfall. max, gabe and I stuck our heads under there… for you.. .you’d do it if you were here..

 

Then the three of us jumped n the river.. we felt cold and alive.. and thought of you…

Sam’s freinds dropped by to say hi

Now we’re heading up to Tim and Jen’s for a small dinner.. we’ll have a cake for you..

Tomorrow folks are coming over to celebrate Max’s graduation.. we’ll toast you, too.

OK.. gotta run up to our friends.. Me miss you so much my son.. I’ll love you forever..

nite all, nite sam.. happy birthday my son…
-dad

FRiday – The day before Sam’s birthday

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I’ve had a slow and quiet day.. Many folks have already taken off for the long weekend… and my laptop were out of commission.. Both lead to a day with lots of space for thinking. I’ve been crying on and off all day.. which kind of surprises me.. I mean I know the reason.. Tomorrow would have been Sam’s 19th birthday. It’s just that I now go many days… sometimes weeks without breaking down.. To do so throughout a day like this hasn’t happened in a long time. I often tell folks that ask me about things like birthdays, that ‘special’  days aren’t really that much harder than  ‘normal’ days.. it’s just that everyone else remembers..

But… that’s not exactly through.. Days like this bring back specific memories more than other.. we remember where we were.. what we did, what we ate.. w.. through pictures we even capture wat we looked like..

As I restored my laptop today I had to go through and copy lots and lots of pictures.. many from before Sam’s passing.. I loved looking at them.. Perhaps it was a special gift to have to go through them today..  I love seeing what a happy and beautiful boy my Sam was.. always a smile.. always active.. it warms my heart…  It also hurts so much…. I remember where I was 19 years ago tonight.. I was right here

Happy almost birthday my son… we love you forever..

ps . Were having aparty to celibrate Max’s graduation and to honor Sam’s Birthday.. Pleease comen and help us congratulate max.. and send some love to Sam .. and congratulate Ian.

 

Max’s College Graduation – Sam’s 19th Birthday – Ian’s First Marathon

7PM Sunday May 29th

Old Jonesville Schoolhouse

20 Duxbury Rd, Richmond, VT 05477

Please come help us celebrate Max on completing his college experience at the Pratt Institute. It is quite an accomplishment and we all are so proud of him. There will be a showing of his senior film projects after dark.

Sam’s birthday is on Saturday and we will give him a Red Bull toast on Sunday and send him some love from all of us. He is forever in our hearts and sharing these moments with you is important. We will have Sam Stones out to make, if you wish to help.

Keeping the spirit of celebrating in our house, Sunday is the Burlington City Marathon and we will give cheers to Ian for his first marathon. He will be running for both Sam & Dylan.

We will provide cake, ice cream sundaes, and drinks. If possible, please bring a party appetizer to share.

The pool will be open for swimming (bring suits & towels) and the barn open for jamming (bring instruments).

Let us know if you can come. Love to see you.
The Mariano-Cohn Family

Thursday night – now what ?

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Odd day capped off by a catastrophic laptop failure at 6:00 pm: (hense this post is from my phone ) my laptop… my workmate, my muse, my toy, my best electronic friend had the mechanical equivalent of a meltdown.. and took with it everything i’ve done since my last backup a month ago.. how may powerpoints ? How many lines of code ? How many pictures…’ll never know. The funny thing is.. I felt a little bit of guilty pleasure..it will take all datomorrow to rebuild which roughly translates to ‘four day weekend’…
Every cloud has a silver lining..which reminds me.. tonight around. I had the awesome luck(?)  To see a huge lightning bolt strike an electrical pole in richmond. It arked twice… maybe 12 feet then. The whole town went dark,, how cool is that ?

Nite all, nite sam
-me