Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #776 - On the Ferry

On the SS Badger - ferry ride - 1708.21

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #776 - On the Ferry - Trip west Day #1

Hi Mom,

Ferry ride across Lake Michigan on the SS Badger.

Note to self: irregular sleeping pill the night before and two bonine motion sickness pills will make one groggy and "drunk" for the entire day.

Off the boat at last!!

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 778 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1708.21 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #775 - Goodbye Kalamazoo - My Old School

me in Stetson Chapel - K-College - 1708.16

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #775 - Goodbye Kalamazoo - My Old School

Hi Mom,

Today is my last day as a Kalamazoo resident.

I am overwhelmed with tasks to do and packing.

I am writing this Saturday night at my bed time. Not quite past bed time yet but it will be before I go to bed and then get up early in what will be this, Sunday morning to pack and leave my home in Kalamazoo for my new home in Woodland, Washington.

I am sad.

I am also excited.

And it feels a little like I am graduating.

Goodbye for now.



A PHOTO DUMP of K-college STUFF

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 777 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1708.20 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #774 - Goodbye KUDL

me post-KUDL tournament 1708.19

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #774 - Goodbye KUDL

Hi Mom,

Not a lot of time for blogging right now. I have a lot to do before I leave, which I do tomorrow.

But I wanted to post.

I just received a huge out pouring of love from my friends in KUDL (The Kalamazoo Ultimate Disc League) at today's tournament in which I was given this trophy and a disc signed by everyone and a championship medal. Also, Jeremy "Peaches" Welter made a nice speech in my honor when he presented the trophy.

I had a great day, and surely I will write more about it later.

For now, I will just share what Lanny Potts said. This honor was not deserved. It was earned. And he told me that I was loved. but I already knew that, and if I didn't, everyone showed me how much with hugs and well wishes.

I am deeply moved, humbled, and touched.

But I also want to take some credit for making KUDL the way it is, making it the kind of community it is, fostering and fomenting the love it has for everyone who joins its ranks. I am sad to leave its loving embrace, its community, but then, maybe I can't. It's with me, and I am always part of it.

Thank you to all my KUDL family.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 776 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1708.19 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #773 - Meeting the New Neighbor

me with new neighbor Sarah Parish - 1708.16

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #773 - Meeting the New Neighbor

Hi Mom,

I met our new neighbor.

Packing is in high gear, so just this. I already posted it to Facebook so this is just so I can save it in a away I can access and for people who may have missed the Facebook post.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 775 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1708.18 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #772 - Sam Meyers and Me - Throwback Thursday for 1708.17

Me and Sam Meyers - sometime in the late 1990s

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #772 - Sam Meyers and Me - Throwback Thursday for 1708.17

Hi Mom,

You would think with the moving truck packed and gone, I would have less to do and not be frantic in the way you were frantic, Mom, earning yourself the name "Frantic Woman." Along with Ms. Intensity, this our two traits that I gained from you.

But I am still busy, and I am posting this a day late, on Friday.

So, this is just a quick note to say that there is still packing to do, I am still doing it, but with help. Today (as in Thursday) Melanie came and helped A LOT. Tomorrow (the day I am actually writing this, Friday) Sam Meyers (seen as a baby in the picture above and me with his father below) will come and help me yet again to clear stuff out of this house.

It's a hefty process.

Like so many people helping me (my Dad, my sister, Lori, Melanie, my friend Jessica), I could not have done this move without Sam Meyers. His strong arms have carried much of the weight of this process, and I am forever indebted to him.

He held me up for this move much like I am holding him up in that photo. Thanks, Sam. I love you.

I had a great day yesterday (now two days ago from when I am writing but yesterday, Wednesday, as per the date and time stamp for the blog) I had a great morning at K-College. I have many pictures, and I would like to share, but that will have to wait.

I have so many to do thing on many to do lists and I am trying to work and teach classes.

It's not an ideal situation.

But I am surviving.

My new mantra?

I can get it all done.

and

It's going to be all right.

Thanks for reading.

Me and my best friend Tom Meyers - Vermont -1993

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 774 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1708.17 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #771 - Moving Day

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #771 - Moving Day

Hi Mom, Here's what happened yesterday, August 15th.

I will let the pictures tell the story.

I am exhausted and behind on work.

But we're packed (mostly). We're moving. More tomorrow.

in case you're wondering that plaid thing is my shorts...

MOVING DAY PHOTO GALLERY

THE SHRINKING BED..........

before

after

hiding in the bed room

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 773 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1708.16 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.