Monthly Archives: September 2014

Sunday night – study break

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Nice quiet day around the house. We got out early afternoon to run a couple errands and to meet up with gabe for a short study break. We brought pho dang take out for him. Since his room is small, we found an empty classroom in one of the academic buildings and laid out our feast.

It was great seeing him. He's working so hard. I'm really proud of them.

We also dropped by My friend Scott's to pick up some chemicals for some demos I have to do next week. I had to drive home carefully consider what I had in the trunk.

Got to go work with those chemicals now…
More tomorrow
Night all, night sam

-me

 

Saturday night – sunrise

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Diane woke me at 5AM.We’d made plans to meet Brit and her friends for a fast walk up Bolton mountain to watch the sun rise. It was just about 40 degrees outside so I grabbed every warm thing I could find in my summer clothes and rolled them around my sleepy body and shuffled to the cars. Diane and the dogs had been up for a good half hour before me.. so they were alert and excited.. as I rubbed my sleepy eyes. .. We didn’t start up the mountain until about a quarter to 6..  It was a beautiful morning as we started our   climb.. It  was in the high thirties.. and the sky was begging to lighten a bit. Brit and her friends ahead with head lights.. we followed along and used the  dawn half  light to see..

We made the top in under 45 minutes.. which is a pretty good pace. We got there just before the sun crested the worcester range..

it was FREEZING up there.. so it felt nice to climb down the rickety ladder to the relative warmth of the woods..  the light was so beautiful

yhe rest of the day was queit and nice.. I worked on a talk I’m giving and some demos we hung curtains.. and all four of us.. diane. me . satori and chai all fell asleep in front of the fireplace…

oh yeah.. the first fire of winter.. and I think it’s still sort of summer..

that’s Vermont.. and I’m really glad

nite all. nite sam

-me

Friday night – cornonal mass ejection

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What better way to end the week with a major geomagnetic storm. Our Sun has been really busy this week with two major explosions in the last two days. Lots of dire predictions about power failures and communications disruptions out there..  but there’s promise of tonight of a good chance to see the Aurora

Wouldn’t it be great if our own temper tantrums caused great beauty at a distance ? Maybe they do ?

 

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Thursday night – the power of symbols

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I woke in a strange bed this morning.. not that strange, really. Diane and I slept in Gabe’s bed because she’d just finished doing a wonderful paint ob of our room…and it was still drying. It was fin falling asleep in the room I slept in for many years before kids….. It had also been Max’s room, then sams room.. then gab’s room.

i woke disoriented though.. where was I .. I saw the spiral on the ceiling..

Sam and Diane pained that just before he died.. it was a portal to another world we decided..

THursday night - the power of symbols

the rest of the stuff in the room was all gabe..s

 

 

. he also had some tribute stuff.. .. .. he had his brothers lacrosse jerseys

 

and a bunch of stuff from our friend Dylan..

 

it took me awile to process as I was waking up.. it felt good to be lying in there among all my kids’ things..

 

then I wnet to work today. A freind of mine was in from texas to give a talk.. and I wanted to see it.. as I was walkign up the stairs, i noticed hte fflags were at half mast…

why ?!?!

 

ah.. Spet 11.. how could I forget.. again the power of symbols.

 

 

my favorite symbol of the day was much more subtle.. as I was walkign out of a meeting.. i realized that I’d met diane on these staires almost exactly 32 years ago…

 

now that’s a symbol i like !

 

nite all. nite sam

-me