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Wednesday night – Clarity

So.. today i was on a quest for clarity… well I was supposed to be at

least. Friend Marci, our wonderful reiki/massage therapist , reminded

me today that I was to seek clarity….  so.. I did the only natural

thing.. I consulted the oracle, Facebook.  At 3 o’clock I posted the

following…

John Cohn  John Cohn
looking for clarity… (anyone seen it ? )
6 hours ago · ·

Over

the next couple of hours I got 28 suggestions… I present them to you

here unedited.. They ranged from deep to silly to mysterious… More

than anything it made me happy that so many folks would offer their

thoughts..

Christian WheelerChristian Wheeler

i found it in the divorce….lol
6 hours ago · Delete

Michelle HermarkMichelle Hermark

Everything here is clear as mud.
6 hours ago · Delete

Laura KangasLaura Kangas

it’s right there on your left. : )
6 hours ago · Delete

Chris ShimerChris Shimer

“Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will”
6 hours ago · Delete

Scott TurnbullScott Turnbull

I saw it once, then I lost it in the fog. Could you clarify the request a bit more for me?
6 hours ago · Delete

Rick MundayRick Munday

I usually find it in the bottom of a cup of coffee.
5 hours ago · Delete

Rich DauphinRich Dauphin

I used to play the clarinet with a great deal of clarity.
5 hours ago · Delete

Mike SteffMike Steff

clarity is right in front of you but you must first open your eyes to clearly see the clarity
5 hours ago · Delete

Mike SteffMike Steff

i also found it on the internet 🙂
http://clarityproducts.com../
5 hours ago · Delete

Anthony BarnettAnthony Barnett

Here it is:
http://…com/ycaucxf
5 hours ago · Delete

Christopher FallChristopher Fall

Yes, but most aren’t willing to sacrifice what it takes for true clarity.
5 hours ago · Delete

Scott Mathias ChrismanScott Mathias Chrisman

Look for the crest of a new wave
5 hours ago · Delete

Marcie Lynn TaffMarcie Lynn Taff

nice, go ahead and pick on your healer!!!
5 hours ago · Delete

John CohnJohn Cohn

hey.. I was just following orders 🙂
5 hours ago · Delete

Shawn GarrettShawn Garrett

Duct tape and WD-40 will solve it all….
5 hours ago · Delete

Paul M KrusePaul M Kruse

Clarity: For me the acceptance that clarity does not exist in this life.
5 hours ago · Delete

Laura KangasLaura Kangas

John, how about sitting with obscurity for a bit…perhaps it will lead you to clarity.
5 hours ago · Delete

Michele GoodfellowMichele Goodfellow

“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
4 hours ago · Delete
Fintan Vargas

Fintan Vargassaltwater fish tank.. get one!!
3 hours ago · Delete

Kelvin LawrenceKelvin Lawrence

I usually find clarity hiding behind obscurity
3 hours ago · Delete

Robert WalkerRobert Walker

There’s

an adjustment for Clarity in Photoshop — and it comes with a slider so

you can control the amount of Clarity! Of course, that may not be the

clarity that you’re looking for…

2 hours ago · Delete

Robert VallanceRobert Vallance

I find a big hammer helps me with clarity!
2 hours ago · Delete

Vicki C. MatthewsVicki C. Matthews

is there really such a thing?
2 hours ago · Delete

James Norman ThomasJames Norman Thomas

There’s a critically acclaimed album by Jimmy Eat World called Clarity…maybe that’s it?
about an hour ago · Delete

Lisa StanzialeLisa Stanziale

Not sure if it is visible…
about an hour ago · Delete

Judy McVickarJudy McVickar

If you find it, let me know.
about an hour ago · Delete

Matt PeregrineMatt Peregrine

Clarity is on the top shelf next to Happiness, right behind Patience.
about an hour ago · Delete

Sue BentlageSue Bentlage

Chandu has clarity … he can help!

about an hour ago · Delete

So …  Thank you all for taking the time to help me find clarity.. I think I found a little today with your help..    Any other thoughts on where you find clarity.. or what you do with it when you found it ?   Please let me know…! Hope you have a clear night folks. You too Sam
-me

Ps. Speaking of clarity.. here’s the view from my soon to be former office today….


pss..

And one for the record.. here’s a picture I found on the internet that

someone took of our TimeCycle vehicle at Burning man a few weeks back..

This one shows the lights I worked on.


Brand New Colony (not the show… a song)

OK.. so nothing deep tonight.. just that I’ve been hearing this song in the corner of my mind for the last several weeks. I catch snippets of it on the  radio while driving.. or coming out of stores. I kept thinking I hear the word ‘Colony’ in it.. I finally had to look it up.. It’s called “Brand New Colony” by the band  “The Postal Service”  . TPS is a spin off of “Death Cab for Cutie” which wrote  “Lack of Color” one of the songs I’ll always associate with Sam because his freinds used it for one of the slideshows they made for his memorial..  (I can’t find that one right now.. but here’s another one )
 
Anyway..    Brand New Colony makes me happy and long for the old dirty colony.  I woke up this morning and realized I’d been dreaming about my time on the show. I was at my workbench making soemthing .. I don’t recall what.. I just remember it wasn’t working.. It was a common scene for me.. and I have to say.. my favorite type of frustration..  Any geek/hacker will know what i mean by that.. I’m leaving those memories behind a little more each day. I’m forgetting the gritty feeling of the floor.. or the taste of the food… or the sounds of the gates..

I guess that means I’m ready for a new adventure

Maybe a brand new colony ? (don’t worry  I meant that metaphorically… I’m not going back for season 2 🙂

I guess that’s all I have for today.. In a way that’s kinda nice.. I’ll leave you with the words and music to the song.. Enjoy folks.. you too, Sam
-me

“Brand New Colony”  by The Postal Service.

I’ll be the grapes fermented,

Bottled and served with the table set in my finest suit

Like a perfect gentlemen

I’ll be the fire escape that’s bolted to the ancient brick

Where you will sit and contemplate your day

I’ll be the waterwings that save you if you start drowning

In an open tab when your judgment’s on the brink

I’ll be the phonograph that plays your favorite

Albums back as you’re lying there drifting off to sleep…

I’ll be the platform shoes and undo what heredity’s done to you…

You won’t have to strain to look into my eyes

I’ll be your winter coat buttoned and zipped straight to the throat

With the collar up so you won’t catch a cold

I want to take you far from the cynics in this town

And kiss you on the mouth

We’ll cut our bodies free from the tethers of this scene,

Start a brand new colony

Where everything will change,

We’ll give ourselves new names (identities erased)

The sun will heat the grounds

Under our bare feet in this brand new colony

Everything will change, oOo oOo…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4h7MqeZRU8

Monday night – rainbows and ice cream

Two simple themes tonight.. rainbows and ice cream.. two substories to each.

First I got the following picture from friend Haleigh . Here dad had a samstone on his dashboard. She happened to get a shot with the stone reflected in a new rainbow.

Then later in the day I was at Gabe’s soccer game waiting to go home when I saw this rainbow in the sky.. the second in the  day.. pretty lucky.. no ?

And now two ice cream stories.. remmeber last night when I wen went to Ben’s and made icecream for the party goers there ? Well.. it had been a nice small crew there.. so I didn’t even use up a gallon of the yummy milk/cream/chocolate mixture Diane had made up to freeze.   At the end of the night I still had 2 gallons of the stuff.. and I couldn’t just throw them away. ..
   So…. today i took a short break at lunch to make a gallons worth of ice cream in the Work cafeteria.. I did it as a surprise.. so I didn’t have to ask 14 folks for permission.. It was yummy !  I was able to hand out ice cream to everyone in the cafeteria at that point in the day…     Even so.. I could only use up half of my supplies.

So.. after yoga, I went back into town to meet up with some friends from work who are here at a workshop. We met at American Flatbread.. then we headed out to make icecream. Ironically, the closest place was the parking lot that once was the site of the original Ben and Jerry’s.. With some of my buddies help we froze the remaining gallon of cream mix and either ate.. or handed it out.. It was a GREAT scene.. Folks were really appreciative .

Yum @.. almost ready !

We even ran into some strangers who recognized me from The Colony. It was great talking to them !

OK.. I can’t keep my eyes open any more.. the rest will have to wait till morning. gnite for now everyone.. Gnite Sam
-me

Sunday night – coals to newcastle

Lazy fall day.. Diane and I took a great hike up in honey hollow withe the dogs this
morning. It was misty and the fall colors.. muted as they are this year.. looked particularly nice.. The sun was filtering the mist is a really cool way… 

Our colors really aren’t that bright this year.. many places are still holding on to green.. but many have gone straight from yellow to brown without stopping in red or orange as they usually do.  The results is muted.. but still gorgeous.

As always we placed a samstone at the crossing of the fast running creek. This time I placed the stone in the water. I’d love to be able to watch the water smooth the stone over many months.. We’ll keep an eye on it.

We came home and began working around the house and the yard. One of the things I did was to clean out some of the yoga space.. That meant taking Sam’s drums up to the attic. Sam was always playing these things.. as were his friends. After Sam’s passing, his friends would come over and play.. or max would play when he was home.. then fewer people came to play music here. Now the drums are quiet and disassembled.. or is that dis-a-cymballed ?   Taking them up to the attic was one of those flashes of sadness that surface often in our lives now .. I put the drums in a safe place upstairs and cried for a bit.. then got back to my cleaning..

Gabe and I spent some time finishing our crazy giant chair.. the chair is actually the middle of our climber thing.. We cut the middle out last weekend in order to use the structure as a roof for our pizza oven. The center looked so much life a chair that we decided to finish it off. .. It’s very cool to sit in it that high.

Around 6, Diane and I headed over to Ben’s for a small end of summer party..   It was a pretty small gathering a about a dozen folks..  homer, chris and duane were there from the burner contingent. It was nice seeing them all calm and happy. Everyone seems to be  recovering nicely from the crunch at the end of the timecycle project.

I’d had a bunch of liquid nitrogen left form a movie project earlier this week. I brought it with us to make ice cream for the party folks.. Diane had made some delicious chocolate stuff to freeze.  It was funny making ice cream at ben’s house… the house of ice cream… . but came out well and tasted great.

As we left Ben’s., the clouds and mist were floating over the near full moon.. just as we got to the car, a bunch of coyotes started howling very near by. It was an amazing, almost human sound.. mournful and menacing.. and at the same time wonderful.. we all stopped and listened.. it was so cool…

Now it’s 10:30.. early for bed, I know.. but I can’t keep my eyes open. time for sleep.. Gnite everyone.. Gnite Sam
-me
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