This afternoon i attended a very short, very moving ceremony at MMU to commemorate e our friend Elijah Todd Davis. Elijah died last year just two weeks after graduating from MMU. He was headed to the marines in the fall.  Family and freinds, including  the MMU LAX team came to pay respects and place a stone Gabe engraved near a newly planted tree. One by one, the lacrosse team players filed by the stone. and bent down to touch it. It was so touching and sad..

Here is Elijah’s family, our good friends the Davis’s..they are such good people.I was glad to see everyone here to support them.

After the team filed b the stone they went out tot the field. Soon they did senior honors.. each team’s seniors came out on the field and were announced.. her’s gabe running out.

Bucky asked everyone to remove their helmets and hats and we had a minute of silence for Elijah..   then thy played the star spangle banner form the marine corp band.. again in honor of Ellijah who’d signed up for the marines.

The teams played well…

after the game, gabe, raya and i went out to mexicali’s (my 2nd time there today)_ for a quick dinner..   THer eI ran into my friend steve and his wife jody.. Steve is the guy i met on an airplane that had my name (almost) tattooed on his arm with atoms..   He has C H O N.. the most common elements n living organisms.

i ended up making shirts out of those same atoms after steve gave me the artwork.   I just swapped them around to  C O H N

ok. long day.. thats it for now. more tomorrow

nite all. nite sam

-me