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The meeting last night.\u00a0 The note written late last night did not do this meeting justice.\u00a0 The guest, Jay, told stories of his father, a Metropolitan Life Insurance Executive who hated his job, kept a print of racing sailboats gunnels in the water as they rounded a turn across from his desk and retired, in 1959 at the age of 55, picked up the family, put them in the sail boat and made their way to Ft. Lauderdale where he had bought a house.\u00a0\u00a0 Jay’s father, he said, attracted trouble.\u00a0 He had 25 diseases, sailed through four typhoons and two hurricanes and had numerous close calls while sailing.\u00a0 Jay’s openness about his relationship with his father, “We disagreed on everything, except sailing.\u00a0 Sailing we could be together, often without talking.” made many of us reflect on our fathers.\u00a0 Few of us in the Woollies had dad’s with whom we had a positive bond.<\/p>\n
Jay also spoke of two other powerful subjects.\u00a0 The Gulf Stream, at points 40 miles wide and three miles deep, moving at 4 knots, keeping England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and parts of Europe temperate rather than freezing, has a vitality and strength, a magnetic pull to sailors.\u00a0 His father’s ashes were cast into the Gulf Stream as, Jay says, his, too, will be someday.<\/p>\n
The second is his creative work which focuses on expressing the unrevealed, the dark places where we think we’ve been, but where we’ve actually only touched the surface.\u00a0 Much like the ocean?<\/p>\n
Scott told of his opportunity, turned his way by his ex-wife, also a drummer, to play percussion in an off-broadway musical beginning its initial work in Aspen this June.\u00a0 It’s a 4 and 1\/2 week gig, paid, and he gets to be with his son, Corey, at the same time.\u00a0 The music is a blend of jazz and rock and roll, music Scott’s always wanted to play.<\/p>\n
Mark O. goes under the knife today (nope, next Tuesday.\u00a0 I stand corrected.) for a new knee and Jay does, too, to have a gall bladder removed.\u00a0 Paul and Sarah Strickland have helped found an organization, 10,000 Friends of the Maine Coast, which has ambitions to create sustainable jobs and, perhaps, expand down the Eastern seaboard.\u00a0 Frank took pot roast to a friend of Mary’s undergoing chemotherapy and plans to go back on Thursday with some more.\u00a0 Tom Crane had weekend a crammed full of ex-spouse in-law’s and the ex-spouse at one point–of Roxann.\u00a0 Bill spoke about Regina, the reality they have to face, the difficulties and blessings involved.\u00a0 A tough place, full of paradox.\u00a0 Brother Mark talked about reverse culture shock from his return, 22 years later, to the American mainland.\u00a0 “America is such a virile place, bursting with energy.\u00a0 Hard to absorb.\u00a0 Yes.”<\/p>\n
It was a strong meeting, full of feeling and heartbreak and joy and confusion.\u00a0 Real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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