It’s 11:30 on Saturday night. Diane, Max, Gabe and I just finished watching a  movie together.. It was a really nice evening. The movie was Stranger Than Fiction It was a low key comedy with Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emma Thompson..  It was a cute movie with a sort of twisted plot..  Like every movie or piece of music I hear/watch, I manage to relate the story to Sam.. The story wasn’t particularly sad, but there were two points in this  movie where the associations brought tears to my eyes.. That’s not unusual.. What  is unusual, is that it made me realize that yesterday I don’t think I cried  at all. If that’s true.. it would make yesterday the first totally dry-eyed day I’ve had since last November. I know it seems strange to keep track of such things.. but that’s  just the way my mind works. So.. what do I make of that.. is that progress ? .. or have I lost touch with something ? I’ll have to think some more about that…  I guess it’s just part of my healing  story.

   Speaking of stories.. My family and I would like to start something new. We want to start collecting Sam stories on our SamStones.org website.  things people remember about Sam.. funny stories, things you did with him. We’d also like to hear about the things that remind you of Sam now. We’d love to put these together in a book of Sam that we’d like to have in our family. If you have any good stories, please post them here… and please ask your friends to do the same.. We’d really appreciate it.

   One other thing I’d like to share tonight. Diane just received a copy of her YogaKids newsletter for this month. YogaKids is the program that Diane trained with to begin her yoga practice for kids.  This newsletter has a story that Diane wrote abut Sam’s passing and  how Yoga has helped her heal. I think it’s a beautiful letter. You can read it here

She’s received many wonderful letters in response from other folks in the YogaKids organization. It’s really like a big family for her.

   OK.. tomorrow’s Easter… another milestone.. We’ll be thinking of you Sam. G’nite

-jc