family

[derien]

Just spent a half hour talking with first my Dad and then my brother, Eightball. Eightball had asked that when I found out when our Uncle's memorial service is going to be I let him know - he was hoping to get some time off and come up for it. But that's looking quite unlikely, now, as he has made plans with his gf and is now going to go BACK to California in the beginning of September. Getting time off in July when he's already told his boss he's leaving in September... yeah, just doesn't sound good. I knew that something would happen and he'd leave the East Coast before our other brother, Hawk, would get here. We discussed the fact that obviously something tremendous would happen if we were all on the East Coast at the same time, since circumstances have conspired to make sure we don't all get together for years. The magnetic poles of the Earth would flip, or something. He says "We owe it to the Earth and the peoples of the Earth to make sure this doesn't happen." ;)

HOWEVER... He's hoping to be at the Brain Arts Festival at Radio City Music Hall in NYC to give a demonstration of whatever it is that he does (a sort of movement-based meditation, I think?) on August 14th, and he'll buy my ticket in to this event if I'll come. wow. 0.0 I should do this, I think. I've never been to New York, really; only in the train station on my way elsewhere. Hm.