{"id":638,"date":"2007-01-09T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/01\/09\/monday-evening-posted-from-a-parking-lot-in-tucson\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T12:19:00","slug":"monday-evening-posted-from-a-parking-lot-in-tucson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/01\/09\/monday-evening-posted-from-a-parking-lot-in-tucson\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday evening – posted from a parking lot in Tucson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m writing from a plane on my way to Tucson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. It feels really funny leaving Diane, Max and Gabe behind. As I said before, I’m not so worried about how they’ll do without me.. I’m more worried how I’ll do without them. I am relying on them so much for comfort and a sense of ‘center’. Somehow I feel like Sam is traveling with me.. which brings me some comfort. One thing about traveling is that it brings you in close contact with many strangers.  <\/span>As we took off from Burlington<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. I started to cry a little as I thought of the last time I flew out of Burlington<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> to go say goodbye to Sam in Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.  <\/span>I thought I was being pretty discreet.. but the woman next to me tapped me on the arm and asked me if I was OK..  <\/span>‘Yeah I’m fine,’ I said.. but she didn’t buy it.. so I switched to option b) and told her about Sam.  <\/span>I spent the rest of the flight to JFK talking to her and her father about Sam, travel, etc. It turns out that she and her Dad (Bree and Lars)  <\/span>were on their way to Turkey<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> for 9 days of traveling around by bus. One of the places they are going is Ephesus<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, one of the most amazing archaeological sites that I’ve ever seen. (So great in fact that the MSWord spell checker knows how it’s spelled!) Diane. Max and I visited there in 1990.  <\/span>I remember it having a very lavish ‘vomitorium’ where you went to  <\/span>‘regain your hunger’  <\/span>between courses at a feast.., obscene  <\/span>graffiti and an secret tunnel between  <\/span>a brothel and a religious temple. I gave my two traveling friends one of the clay ‘sam stones’ that I had with me to leave at the site. What do you think the archeologists will make of that J<\/span><\/span> ? I like the thought that these stones with Sam’s name on it will get spread over the world. If you or your friends are planning a trip somewhere distant, please let us know and we’ll give you a stone to toss for Sam.  <\/span>   <\/span>I’ve got one of the stones to give to my friend Chris in Tucson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. I’ll also give one to my friends I’ll be seeing from China<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and Japan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> to take back to their countries. Now that I think of it .. I didn’t bring enough for the countries I’ll be seeing. I’ll need to  <\/span>start carrying more of them with me.   <\/span>Thanks so much to Jen for helping us make them. I feel the need to make many more. <\/p>\n

    <\/span>Tomorrow’s meeting will be my first real full day back at work since Sam died (7 weeks ago this evening). I’m excited and nervous about being back. Today I spent about 4 hours at work.. though it wasn’t much like work, really.. most of my day was spent getting hugged by everyone I saw. It felt really great to see everyone again..   <\/span>I also went to the doctors (for antibiotics-still sick) and the grocery store.. both places I got hugged by many  <\/span>of the folks I saw. I love living in a small, close community like we do. <\/p>\n

    <\/span>Well.. now I do need to get some work done.  <\/span>Since I’m not there to hug anyone..  <\/span>or be hugged please hug someone you love for me tonight.. If that doesn’t work.. hug yourself.. or a pet.. or a lamp.. or something.   <\/span>Here’s a hug for you Sam. I’m thinking of you from the plane.<\/p>\n

-jc<\/p>\n

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I’m writing from a plane on my way to Tucson. It feels really funny leaving Diane, Max and Gabe behind. As I said before, I’m not so worried about how they’ll do without me.. I’m more worried how I’ll do without them. I am relying on them so much for comfort and a sense of … Continue reading Monday evening – posted from a parking lot in Tucson<\/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-638","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\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}