It’s good to be in this house again.  I remembered this evening that I was planning on being here right before Thanksgiving. I had been planning on surprising my parents who were here visiting my sister. They were here when we learned of Sam’s accident. Looking back, I’m glad they were all together when they heard. I called my folks tonight from here. My Mm had just sent me this picture of Sam from last summer..

What a Beautiful boy!

I’m out here working with a client that’s in the healthcare business. I’m finding that this stuff is much more interesting to me since Sam’s accident.  It’s so cool to think that something I could be working on could be helping save lives in the not so distant future.   It’s really nice to be able to think about a completely new problem once in a while.    

     Speaking of which, I had a really good talk this evening with my friend G from IBM Canada. G’s wife passed away last May . G and I have somewhat similar personalities and similar situations at work, so I called him to compare notes on his path through healing. G told me that immediately after his wife passed away that he threw himself into his work in an effort to stay busy..  He told me that he worked himself too hard and wore himself out. In the end, he found that he couldn’t really get his head back into his job.  I’ve heard this same pattern from other folks who have gone through a traumatic loss.  I learned last week that G.  had been given the opportunity to take a sabbatical in another part of our company. It’s early, but so far he says he’s really enjoying the change of focus. It’s comforting for me to know that that kind of opportunity exists in our company if I were to need it.
     Well… tomorrow I head back to Vermont. I miss my family, I miss my house.   Diane told me that she walked into the house yesterday after coming n from a walk and the house was full of little moving rainbows..   This little solar powered electric sun catcher we have which has never ever worked spontaneously started spinning for her. Thanks for taking care of her Sam.   I love you

-jc

 ps .I got the following in the mail today from a work colleague. http://www.scottmcleod.org/didyouknow.wmv   It is pretty thought provoking. . One cool statistic in there  is that if it were a country, MySpace’s 106 million registered users would make it the world’s 11^th largest country  (between Japan and Mexico)  and.. as they say in German.. Wenn meine Großmutter Rader hatte, ware sie ein Autobus. (if my grandmother had had wheels she would have been a bus)