{"id":437,"date":"2007-02-01T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/02\/01\/wednesday-evening-the-sam-rail\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:13:00","slug":"wednesday-evening-the-sam-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/02\/01\/wednesday-evening-the-sam-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Evening – The Sam Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’ve just come back from Bolton<\/st1:place> after the normal Wednesday Night Rider’s competition. Before the competition tonight we had a short ceremony to officially open the beautiful new down-flat-down rail that Sawyer, Neil, Deb and Carter made in Sam’s honor.  <\/span>It’s a thing of beauty !. The guys welded it out of 2×4 square tubular steel\u2026 Sawyer painted Sam’s name all over the both sides of the rail . Neal welded the year Sam was born, his name, and the year he died on the three posts that hold the thing up.   <\/span>There were about 50 folks u in the terrain park …. It wasn’t too cold, ..but cold enough that my lips froze to the rail when I bent down to kiss it.  <\/span>We passed out Red Bulls and everyone poured some of theirs on the rail. The stuff quickly froze into a funky greenish goo .    <\/span>After some hoping and hollering, we all balanced our empty Red Bull cans on the rail and Chris Perron (Scooby) came flying down the mountain and plowed them off .  <\/span>It was beautiful and surreal. . Sam’s spirit is so powerful up on that mountain. I swear I could hear him up there tonight\u2026 Here’s what it looked like”<\/p>\n

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     <\/span>After the ceremony, we all  <\/span>hung out and watched the competition then slithered down to the bar  <\/span>to refuel and wait for results. Gabe took 2nd<\/sup> in his age group (yee-ha) and won some mighty nice white and purple boarding gloves.  <\/span>It is such a great family scene up at Bolton<\/st1:place>.. It feels like a second home, now with all the tables full of our friends\u2026   <\/span>people are continuously hugging us.. buying us food or drink.. Today someone recognized Sam’s picture n Max and offered him a free glass blowing lesson.  <\/span>We continue to live in an extended state of grace.. Maybe it can’t last forever, but the kindness that people extend to us now truly fills us up.
   <\/span>Tonight we saw Ralph and his dad Mark. Mark, Ralph’s Mom. Mark’s wife Robin just came back from Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> a few days ago. While they were down there they got a friend to go to Chitzenitza and had several  <\/span>more of Sam’s Mayan pendants made for us. They are jus tlike the one that Sam used to ear\u2026 beautiful . We plan to all wear them. Whule they were there they placed SamStone in Chitzenitza, Tulum and the Gulf of Mexico<\/st1:place>. These things are starting to cover the earth. It’s a nice thought.
Well.. I gotta get some sleep tonight. I’m off to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> for the day tomorrow for a meeting. I get to see my folks  <\/span>for lunch which will be fun. We’re going to a Middle Eastern restaurant I once tried to belly dance in when I was in college\u2026  <\/span>Can you picture it, Sam ? <\/p>\n

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We’ve just come back from Bolton after the normal Wednesday Night Rider’s competition. Before the competition tonight we had a short ceremony to officially open the beautiful new down-flat-down rail that Sawyer, Neil, Deb and Carter made in Sam’s honor.  It’s a thing of beauty !. The guys welded it out of 2×4 square tubular … Continue reading Wednesday Evening – The Sam Rail<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","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\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}