I had a busy day today.. Back to back meetings then a plane to Raleigh. I had about 30 minutes without a phone glued to my head… I found myself with 30 minutes of quiet to grab lunch. The house was empty and silent and the sun was streaming in as i heated some leftovers ( Diane’s homemade mac and cheese.. the best !) i sat down with my meal and acknowledged, as i always do, the painting of Sam right behind the kitchen counter. Our friend Coco painted it based on a great photo of Sam from Camp Abnakei. I stared at the painting a bit as i ate…and thought of Sam…

It was so quiet.. Somehow i started to speak.. I began telling Sam about my day… And about our visit with one of his buddies last night.. I asked him how things were with him… Didn’t get an answer.. And didn’t expect one.. But it felt so good to be talking with him out load.. .. I looked at my phone and noticed i had a call starting .. So i said good bye quickly and ran upstairs and rejoined my busy day,, sorry to have to run.. But so happy not to have to eat alone now..

Nite all, nite sam
-men

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Happy birthday Satori Mariano Cohn . Our baby dog turns 5 years old tonight. Diane fixed a special scrambled egg and cheese birthday dinner for Satori and big sister Chai who’s 9.

I remember the day we drove up to the vt-canada border near newport to pick out a younger sister for chai. She was the smallest labradoodle of the litter.. And she came up to gabe… We knew she was the one.

It funny to think. Of her as a grown up dog.. shes still so much like a puppy. she is the sweetest dog.. she always wants to please us.. she always wants to play. shes so loyal, too. she will stand or sit at our feet just staring at us until we start to play. When we’re out in the woods running, skiing or snowshoeing, satori will stay right at our heels as big sister chai (who’s 9) wanders all over the place. Shes my alarm dog, too. Every morning she comes and puts her muzzle on the bed and stares at me until i wake up…
She has a cute way of smiling that to those who don’t know her might look like a snarl.. But shes no snarler.. Shes actually quite shy of strangers.. And other dogs…. She almost never barks

Here calm expression and dark black eyes make it impossible to know what she’s thinking.. Sometimes we just stare at each other trying to read one another’s mind.. One thing i can read is that she loves us…

I know she knows we love her too !

Happy birthday girl
Nite all, nite sam
-me

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Im having one of those “don’t care” kind of days… Not the frustrated kind.. Or the distracted kind.. Or the bemused kind… But one of those pleasantly apathetic kind of days…the kind of day when you sit down to write in the evening and your brain has to crane for one thing that happened in the day thats worth retelling…and fail… But not the kind of day that finds that frustrating or puzzling or even funny.. That would be caring..
You know,come to think of it, I’ve been like that for a couple of weeks.. Maybe it was the long break.. Or maybe the lull between the old year ending and the new year starting.. Or maybe that I’ve been getting too much sleep..or eating to well. … Or maybe its lack of stress… Maybe i don’t function all that well without some sort of stress to drive me?
Eh… Who cares anyway ?

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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