{"id":537,"date":"2007-11-15T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/11\/15\/wednesday-night-what-a-long-strange-trip-it%e2%80%99s-been\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T09:04:00","slug":"wednesday-night-what-a-long-strange-trip-it%e2%80%99s-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/11\/15\/wednesday-night-what-a-long-strange-trip-it%e2%80%99s-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – What a long strange trip it\u2019s been !"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   I need to beg your indulgence and get away with a short blog tonight. I just got home from a (great) Dark Star Orchestra concert and it’s now past 2AM. I need to be up for a 7AM phone call.. UGH..   It was a good day. though.. so I want to tell about it. <\/p>\n

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I had calls all day from 8AM until 8:30 PM.. I did manage to fit in some fun and relaxation. The first fun thing was an internatioal buffet at Gabe’s school. All the kids brought in their favorite foods from around the world. Diane made Chole from India.. It was quite spicey.. I loved it !<\/p>\n
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After a few more hours of calls I had a massage\/Reiki session with Marci.. I maanged to fall asleep 4 time in the session. Marci told me that was a good thing !.. I love going there.. It really helps me maintain balance… <\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon I met up with Diane, Deb, Jen and the Friends of Sam Kids.. They were at Hannafords in Tafts Corners filling bags with full Thanksgiving dinners for needy folks in the community. they were using some of the money that was rasied at the wonderful HWH Chile cook-off on Sunday. hte total tally isn’t in, but the early read said that they made over $3700 thanks to a generaous matching grant from HWH.
   It was really fun watching the kids fill the bags. In all they made 42 full thanksgiving dinners for distribution to kids and familysy from 3 differnt schools. Hannaford very generaously donated the bags, the pie makings, the potatoes and half of the turkey !<\/p>\n

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Here are the kids at the Hannafords store <\/div>\n<\/div>\n


Here’s Michelle the store manager. She was so great !<\/p>\n


Here’s what went in every bag..   plus one turkey !<\/p>\n

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Ours did have a special ingredient.. A SamStone !
Hannah had made these greate tags for the bag.. Sam was so much part of this !<\/p>\n


Filling the bags was fun.. and hard work<\/p>\n

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It filled my heart so much to see these kids give so much of their time and energy to finding the needy familys, raising the money filling the bags and distributing them. I have susch admiration for all of them !<\/div>\n

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I left hHannafors and immediatly had to jump on the phone until 8:30.. at that point it was time to head over to Higher Ground for the Dark Star Orchestra. DSO is the best Greatfule Dead cover band in existance. I always see them wehn they come thrgough. Tonight’s show was amazing.. neary 4 and a half hours.. 16 songs in the first set  alone !..  They played Sugaree, China Cat Sunflower, Eyes of the World, Here comes Sunshine, Railroad Blues, Mexicali Blues, Beat it on Down the road.. Cumberland Blues, Wharf Rat, Me and My Uncle, Another Saturday Night and of course, Trucking,  It was so wonderful !>. Live music is so healing to me..<\/div>\n


I ran into Jessie’s friends from Plattsburgh, Eric, nick and Gwen <\/p>\n


I went in with my buddy George.. We also ran into friends Pete and Shey… <\/p>\n

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The band was really good tonight.. It was their third show at higher ground this week.. but it sounded fresh !<\/p>\n

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Sam was so much in my heart tonight… I Called max and let him listen to soem of the music when the band played ‘China Cat’.. But Max and Sam could play that song

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After the show, Andy, the manager put up a Sam Benefit concert poster in Higher ground.   (Remember, Sat November 24th at 7PM in the West Monitor Barn in Richmond) <\/p>\n

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OK.. That’s all I have wakefulness to write..   Gnite everyone.. gnite Sam. I love you !
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Friends..   I need to beg your indulgence and get away with a short blog tonight. I just got home from a (great) Dark Star Orchestra concert and it’s now past 2AM. I need to be up for a 7AM phone call.. UGH..   It was a good day. though.. so I want to tell about it. … Continue reading Wednesday night – What a long strange trip it\u2019s been !<\/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-537","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\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}