Sunday night – all our hearts

Today had a pretty interesting mix of themes.… We started with a nice ski in Waterbury with our friends John and Lauren. We’re trying to make the best of the beautiful snow covered before the rain starts tomorrow.

After that I went and spent a nice hour and a half with my friend Scott. He’s going through chemotherapy and we’re trying to think of a cool therapeutic project to do together. I’m so impressed with his attitude… He’s a pretty spectacular guy.…

From there I went to the “all our hearts”… Event at the generator. My friends Lena and Cathy Put this event in the group behind it together as a service to families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction. If you weeks ago they Had an event where the families got together and made Clay stones to remember their love ones. Today they were handing them out. It was a really nice event. There were lots of families there who had been touched by addiction disease… And they got up and told their stories. I was in tears for quite a bit of it. It was cool that they had been able to adapt some of the same stones ideas.… I had originally thought that This event today was the combination of the all our hearts effort… I quickly came to understand this was just the beginning of it. They want to grow this so that more and more families can tell their stories. It felt like a really wonderful beginning

I zoom Dan from there to join in the pocket remembrance event. Our good friend Puckett died about four years ago. We get together every year to remember him. He was an awesome friend and an awesome musician… We had a house full of people who were thinking about him. What was really nice is if we had a house full of babies as well. Puckett would’ve loved it !

Coincidentally… Today is the compassionate friends candle lighting ceremony. Every year on the second Sunday of December they asked people all over the world to light candles at 7 PM for children who have died. We took a few minutes to do that in honor of Sam and Puckett