It’s hard being away from home so often. .. but it really helps when the folks down here help me feel at home . The people at the catalyst cafe in our building are always so nice to me . They always know exactly what I want to order.. here are Mindy and Jesus .. thanks for making me feel at home !
Nite all, nite Sam
-me
Walked around work for half a day wondering where everyone was .. then I remembered it was Veterans Day ! Everyone was home! My friend Florin is visiting so I took him for a tour of MIT we came across a Veterans Day ceremony in building 10. For me thinking of my dad Hugh and my father in law Gabe . Their years in the service really shaped them
Thanks pa and thanks gabe for your service !
Nite all , nite Sam
-me
This morning we finished begin yoga and poetry workshop with Biff and friends. We all work together to assemble a class that we all help to give. It was really a great experience. I really enjoyed hearing the poetry and music that we are put together. Finished up around noon and headed out of town around one. You’re a beautiful drive down Through southern Vermont to get to Putney… Where we dropped in on Kevin and Margaret
We stayed there for a bit and then headed down to Cambridge. We got to the hotel around six and then went and picked up my friend Florin who is in visiting from Germany. He joined us and a dinner with our friends DAN and Sara. It was a very interesting and lively mix of people.

OK… Got to get some sleep. More tomorrow
Nite all, nite Sam
-me
Diane and I spent a really relaxing and interesting day at a yin yoga and poetry workshop here in manchester vt. Its only a 3 min walk from our fromt door .. which was a good thing since it was 17 degrees F this morning
The workshop is being led by Diane’s old friend bif and his co-leads eric and kristen. Eric is a womderul musician and added drum, flute and guitar as sound tracks for our day
We had expected it to be mostly yoga with the occasional poem.. but it was the opposite. Each person was supposed to have brought a poem to recite from memory. Neither diane or I had the time to memorize.. but we had some we liked .. diane brought the guesthouse by Rumi.. I brought “I worried” by mary oliver.. but I switched to “always we hope” by lao tzu ..
Always We Hope — Lao Tzu
Always we hope
someone else has the answer,
some other place will be better,
some other time,
it will turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer,
no other place will be better,
and it has already turned out.
At the center of your being,
you have the answer:
you know who you are and
you know what you want.
There is no need to run outside
for better seeing,
nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide at the center of your being:
for the more you leave it,
the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
the way to do is to be.
Abide at the center of your being.
This afternoon we all worked together to construct a class for tomorrow.. we worked to pair our chosen poems with the yin poses bif had selected.. that took a good long time..
We broke for a couple of hous this evening for dinner at a nearby burmese restaurant owned by a friend of bifs.. it was really good..
While we were her.. a project id helped on was going on at generator. My friend lena led a group of families through a project to make heart shape memorial stones remember opioid victims. My friend pike and I made the stamps used to put the url http://allourhearts.com on the back.. the families then wrote The loved ones name on the front , I just heard from lena that it worked well !
I was so happy to hear that it worked out so well !
Nite all, nite sam
-me