{"id":114731,"date":"2024-11-21T12:29:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=114731"},"modified":"2024-11-22T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:00:23","slug":"thursday-night-thinking-of-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2024\/11\/21\/thursday-night-thinking-of-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Thinking of Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today is the day we mark Sam’s passing. It’s been 18 years since we traveled down to Florida to be with him on his last day.\u00a0

Not a day has passed since when we don’t think about him, talk about him… feel his presence.\u00a0 \u00a0We love our son and brother\u00a0 and miss him everyday. His smile still brightens our days,,\u00a0 What a fun and loving kid !
Its a sad day.. but I did more smiling than not..\u00a0

For many of the last 18 years we’ve marked this day with a hike up Bolton and a sometimes with a potluck and samstones making.\u00a0

Over the last several years we’ve often been out of Vermont on this day. This year, we’re in Portland with Gabe.\u00a0 Today we took a hike for Sam\u00a0 up Powell Butte, a beautiful park on the outskirts of Portland.\u00a0

we took a quiet walk in a very beautiful place. We found a good place to drink a redbull and place a samstone.

It felt pretty good\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All through the day we heard from friends letting us know they were thinking of Sam..\u00a0 \u00a0We really appreciated that folks were thinking of Sam.\u00a0

One quick story about that. My friend Shmul in Israel texted me\u00a0 about Sam from a Grateful Dead “Wall of Sound” festival put on to push back the darkness a little.\u00a0 I thanked him and told him that Sam could play China Cat Sunflower on guitar. .. it was his favorit GD song.. Shmul immediately texted back that “China Cat’ was playing at the festival when he got my ttxt on that..\u00a0 \u00a0Pretty cool\u00a0


Later in the day. the three of us went out for Sushi.. a family tradition that Sam loved too..\u00a0

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Sam.. my son .\u00a0 we love you and miss you every day. You will\u00a0 always be with us.. I love you !

nite all, nite sam .. we love you
-me

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Today is the day we mark Sam’s passing. It’s been 18 years since we traveled down to Florida to be with him on his last day.\u00a0 Not a day has passed since when we don’t think about him, talk about him… feel his presence.\u00a0 \u00a0We love our son and brother\u00a0 and miss him everyday. His … Continue reading Thursday night – Thinking of Sam<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114769,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114731\/revisions\/114769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}