{"id":1445,"date":"2009-10-03T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/10\/03\/friday-night-little-by-little\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:09:00","slug":"friday-night-little-by-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/10\/03\/friday-night-little-by-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – little by little"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The show’s finale last week marked one of\u00a0 the peaks of unnormalcy in my life.. Now Little by little, my life is getting back to some semblance of routine.\u00a0 I wake up, run, go to work, come home.\u00a0 eat, blog sleep in a pleasantly predictable rhythm.\u00a0 Not every conversation or email is about The Colony anymore..\u00a0 There are still many echos.. every day a coupe of more old friends reconnect after having seen the show, a few more folks want to hear stories.. a few new offers for talks\/interviews.. but fewer of each every day.. It good to move on.. and at the same time I miss it..<\/p><\/div>\n

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A couple of echos today.. I did two work talks on my experience on the show.. one was to a group of folks in a work area near my own.. there were about 50 folks here in VT.. then others scattered all over.. india, bulgaria. texas, ny, Pennsylvania..\u00a0 That was fun because I had folks in the room with me. <\/p>\n

Later in the day, I had another strange filming thing. I’d agreed to do a talk for soem folks in another part of IBM.. this one had to be recorded.. so I gave a talk just staring at a camera… that’s SO hard to do, because without folks in the room there’s no love coming back. Once again I have to say that the worlds move to virtual events really misses out on the importance of human contact..\u00a0\u00a0 At least I had the two awesome camersa\/sounds guys.. peter and mark.. in the room to talk to.<\/div>\n

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After work I met with a guy named Wally to sell him my old sell phone. It’s for his daughter’s birthday tomorrow.. We agreed to meet in a mostly empty grocery store parking lot..We both got out of our cars. I handed him an unmarked box, and he handed my a fistfull of money.. It looked so much liek a drug deal that I photographed it in case I have to arrest myself later. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From there we headed to Shelburn for Gabe’s soccer game.. He was playing today.. all of his team was.<\/div>\n

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Watching Gabe play was fun.. and It certainly felt like fall out there . Even the geese said so !.<\/div>\n

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Not much else to report… I have been putting some time in this evening to upgrading the ‘Father’s Forever’ website I help run in Boston. Fathers-forever is a group of dad’s that I belong to who have all had childeren that have died. We call it the worst club in the world. It is that.. but it’s also a wonderful group of guys.\u00a0 We’re just starting a blog about dealing with grief after the loss of a child. I know many folks who read this blog have told me about their own losses.. If you are a member of this same terrible ‘club’… you may want to check out http:\/\/fathers_forever.org<\/p>\n

Well.. thats all for today.. I predict an interesting day tomorrow. If it is.. I’ll let you know !
Gnite folks, Gnite Sam
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Post-post… \u00a0 I just saw on Google that today is the birthday of<\/p>\n

Mahatma Gandhi (whose name is so revered that it appears in Firefox’s<\/p>\n

spell checker). Gandhi has always been one of my favorite heroes.. He<\/p>\n

said one of the things that has guided me for many years\u00a0\u00a0 Literally<\/p>\n

guided me… because it’s written on someone’s door between my office<\/p>\n

and the front door. “… You must be the change you want to see in the world.<\/a>”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Happy birthday Gandhi gee !<\/p>\n

ps.. I just read that Gandhi also said\u00a0 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 \n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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