NY Travel's Blog #2...no spinny stuff here

Now I'm on the new jersey transit train to Dover to visit aileen and hang out with her while she teaches her workshops.

New York has been very good to me , mixtures of youthfulness and feeling old to. Went to my grandma funeral which was actually a beautiful experience. I didn't cry a lot it was really a joyous time. I felt like the family really celbrated her life.

It was amazing that most of the family came out and shared some real time together. I saw my uncle donald and my cousin Tyler, the lost but now found cuz calais and a whole bunch family. It is a crazy thing to watch the family become older. Watching family members die, get sick have kids. I feel really nostalgic when I saw my family this time. How young and strong someone was opposed to their older physically weaker self.

Today I talked with my dad about death. I think when his mom died he became really concerned about what would happen when he died, made me sad but at the same time woke me up to many realities I will face.

My dad during the funeral was asked to give a little speech and he said something really profound. He said that he hoped that some family members would grow up. At first I thought he was talking about my cousin elliot, who when my dad said this shook his head and smiled, but when I think about it more, he was talking about the younger generation of the family. That we need to step up and help keep this family together. Which I never thought of before that the older members of the family have tried real hard to keep the family together and now it's our turn. They worked hard to make christmas and thanksgiving and all the other occasions.

Now it seems its the grandchildrens turn to start being the glue that holds the family together, so that the next generation remembers to do the same.

Before Wildfire

This is an old blog I wrote about a week ago....


Hey everyone I'm here in long island chillin with dad. Let's see since I've arrived here many things have happened. But I want twith aileen which was wonderful. It was on a super cool private beach in Pacifica. Watched the sun set met some nice Natives. A cool juggler named heartlife. Spun fire great time. Thx Jimay and Rodrigo for everything



The same day I also found out my grandma died. My dad called and I knew what he was going to say. When I hung up the phone I was not sad but still happy. It was such a mixture of a hi and low. Life has been a lot of that recently, tremendous differences in situations.

So the next day I booked a flight to ny , which meant that my previous flight was pretty much nulled. Which was a downer, I was out 600 bucks for the flights!

Also I was leaving in about three days which meant I had three things pressing to finish. The conclave video for bm,

Check out www.youtube.com/vulcanconclave

aileen and I's circles of light video and the dma yearbook. So if I was a bit distant it's cause I was in the weeds. If you don't know what that means it's when your waiting tables and you can't seem to be fast enough. Btw sorry roomies for ditching my chores.

More to be continued....