{"id":233,"date":"2007-04-08T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/04\/08\/saturday-night-looking-for-sam-stories\/"},"modified":"2007-04-08T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T10:29:00","slug":"saturday-night-looking-for-sam-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/04\/08\/saturday-night-looking-for-sam-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; Looking for Sam Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_250647110\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\">It&#8217;s <st1:time minute=\"30\" hour=\"11\">11:30<\/st1:time> on Saturday night. Diane, Max, Gabe and I just finished watching a <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>movie together.. It was a really nice evening. The movie was Stranger Than Fiction It was a low key comedy with Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emma Thompson..<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>It was a cute movie with a sort of twisted plot..<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Like every movie or piece of music I hear\/watch, I manage to relate the story to Sam.. The story wasn&#8217;t particularly sad, but there were two points in this <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>movie where the associations brought tears to my eyes.. That&#8217;s not unusual.. What <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><i>is<\/i> unusual, is that it made me realize that yesterday I don&#8217;t think I cried<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>at all. If that&#8217;s true.. it would make yesterday the first totally dry-eyed day I&#8217;ve had since last November. I know it seems strange to keep track of such things.. but that&#8217;s <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>just the way my mind works. So.. what do I make of that.. is that progress ? .. or have I lost touch with something ? I&#8217;ll have to think some more about that\u2026<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I guess it&#8217;s just part of my healing <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>story.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Speaking of stories.. My family and I would like to start something new. We want to start collecting Sam stories on our <a href=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/\" target=\"_self\">SamStones.org<\/a> website. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>things people remember about Sam.. funny stories, things you did with him. We&#8217;d also like to hear about the things that remind you of Sam now. We&#8217;d love to put these together in a book of Sam that we&#8217;d like to have in our family. If you have any good stories, please post them <a href=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?page_id=45\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>\u2026 and please ask your friends to do the same.. We&#8217;d really appreciate it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>One other thing I&#8217;d like to share tonight. Diane just received a copy of her YogaKids newsletter for this month. YogaKids is the program that Diane trained with to begin her yoga practice for kids. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>This newsletter has a story that Diane wrote abut Sam&#8217;s passing and <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>how Yoga has helped her heal. I think it&#8217;s a beautiful letter. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogakids.com\/newsletter\/200703\/05-yoga-grief.shtml\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><font size=\"3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogakids.com\/newsletter\/200703\/05-yoga-grief.shtml_\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"\"> <\/span>She&#8217;s received many wonderful letters in response from other folks in the YogaKids organization. It&#8217;s really like a big family for her.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>OK.. tomorrow&#8217;s Easter\u2026 another milestone.. We&#8217;ll be thinking of you Sam. G&#8217;nite<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><font size=\"3\">-jc<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><font size=\"3\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 11:30 on Saturday night. Diane, Max, Gabe and I just finished watching a &nbsp;movie together.. It was a really nice evening. 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