{"id":664,"date":"2007-07-24T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/07\/24\/monday-night-back-from-ny\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T07:50:00","slug":"monday-night-back-from-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/07\/24\/monday-night-back-from-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night – back from NY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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11ish<\/st1:time> on Monday night. I’m just back from my trip to New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. Coming home always feels so good to me now.. I miss everyone so much when I’m gone.  <\/span>At the same time it’s harder now.. every time I walk into  <\/span>the house after being gone because I know that Sam won’t be here..   <\/span>Oh Sam\u2026<\/p>\n

   <\/span>The trip down and back to New  <\/span>York<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> was surprisingly easy. There’s lots of good time for thinking in the car. I find I really enjoy that quiet down time now. It really felt good to go to Bill’s house  <\/span>for Linda’s visiting hours. I now really understand why so many ot the people who where there for us after Sam’s passing   <\/span>had suffered some loss of their own before.. You really want to reach out to others to help.. It’s like a wave.. I think. <\/p>\n

 <\/o:p>I woke this morning confused.. I’d stayed up late again blogging.. when my alarm went off, I rolled over and saw this<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t figure out for a few moments where I was.. then I remembered I was still at Ruchir and Rashi’s . They’d graciously let me stay in their daughter Isha’s room.. while Isha stayed in their room.  <\/span>It was strange waking up in a kid’s room. I went down stairs and had a great breakfast of rice, peas, potatoes and curry..<\/p>\n

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Every meal at Ruchir and Rashi’s is a gourmet feat. I really enjoyed my stay with them. Their kids their kids are so beautiful and Rashi’s parents are very cool.  <\/span>I took a few work calls then Ruchir and I had a great work\/personal catch up session..   <\/span>He’s an amazing guy<\/p>\n

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They’re Hindu… but they dig the Buddha too
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Around 12 I headed over to IBM Somers for a few meetings with friends there. I had a great meeting with my friend Willow<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and her colleagues in communications. Willow<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is going to have a baby in December. It was cool seeing her pregnant. I forgot to smuggle my camera in to get a picture.. darn. We talked about some ideas about better ways to share the cool stuff IBM does with our employees and with kids in schools. I think we actually came up with some good ideas.. I then went up and met with some of my friends in the Academy office.   <\/span><\/p>\n

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After that.. I got in the car and headed back towards Vermont<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2026it was pouring so the driving was a little slow.. I had good music.. so I didn’t mind much.  <\/span>After several hours I pulled off to grab a bite to eat and realized I was in Northahampton Mass, the home of Smith<\/st1:placename> College<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> where my mother went to school. I grabbed a sandwich and drove to the campus.. I’d never been their before and was surprised how sam and how very beautiful it was. I ran back to the car to get a SamStone to place there.. As I was wandering around the green looking for a place to put the stone I noticed a big ornamental lamp on a handsome old building. As I looked at the lamp, it went off then immediately back on and stayed lit. “Thank you Sam:.. I climbed up on the stair railing, stood on my tip toes on the rail and placed the stone on a rock curlicue thingy above the door\u2026 It was definitely the right place for it..   <\/span><\/p>\n

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After I placed the stone I called my mom to tell her I was at her alma<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> matter. She got a kick out of that.   <\/span>The rest of the drive was uneventful.. I got a couple of good calls , listened to some good music and thought about my family.. <\/p>\n

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I got hoe pretty relaxed to find the house full of kids..   <\/span>It was nice coming back to that warmth<\/p>\n

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Brendan
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Andrew
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Carrio
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Jordan and his eveil ferminted lillypad juice
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Diane painting SamStones.
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I’m pretty beat.. time for sleep. More tomorrow. G’nite all.. g’nite Sam.<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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11ish on Monday night. I’m just back from my trip to New York. Coming home always feels so good to me now.. I miss everyone so much when I’m gone.  At the same time it’s harder now.. every time I walk into  the house after being gone because I know that Sam won’t be here.. … Continue reading Monday night – back from NY<\/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-664","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\/664","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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}