Today is the solstice.. the longest day of the year. I packed it with a crazy array of meetings . My 2nd meeting of the day turned out to be particularly interesting. My friend Mohamed who I hadn’t seen in more than 15 years called me out of the blue. His son has been admitted to UVM and they were up at admitted student Day. He called me because i was the first number with an 802 area code . We met at a nice cafe and started catching up.. it occurred to me that he didn’t know about Sam. As I told him, I could tell he hadn’t heard .. but I saw there was more . He told me that his eldest daughter died 7 years ago. It was a weird shock as that sink in for both of us .

We spent the next hour and a half sharing stories about grief , healing , our families work

It was so great to reconnect .. even over shared tragedy

I think it’s made us both more open

Ok.. it’s dark out

.. it’s the start of the shortest night

Nite all, nite sam

-me