First off I just want to say, It makes me ridiculously uncomfortable asking people for money.
With that said, I sent a version of this letter to KC Crosby of the Lexington City Council yesterday after she helped to spearhead an effort to get March Madness Marching Band some much needed funds for our trip to Austin for HONK! TX.
Mostly I wanted to share it with everyone so that if you have already contributed I could thank you. You’re helping to make a really cool and very special dream come true for a lot of people, myself included. If you haven’t and may have been thinking about it I hope I can give you a few more reasons to.
In a completely meta-game moment here I will say that I know I have been slacking off severely. Let’s just say that our intrepid adventurers have killed a lot of people to get to where they were tonight. They met a night club owner, brothel mistress, rock stars and a former prize fighter to get to where they are. Along the way they’ve had many laughs and wackiness has certainly ensued.
So the players have come a long way from Azrael’s night club. They’ve fought many people and come a long way to their final show down with Arachnid. Little did they realize that all along that one in their midst was unknowing giving advice to the enemy…
Will would have been 21 years old today. And in 4 days it’ll be 4 years since he left us.
Will was my baby cousin and unabashedly he was my favorite. We shared a special bond and I will be forever grateful for the time I had with him.
It’s hard to think that it’s been that long. Just saying it even brings tears to my eyes today. Of all the people in my life I think Will has touched me the most. There are times when life is hard and I think of Will and his strength allows me to carry on. In his short time with us he taught us more than we could ever know about perseverance.
I’m not sure that I could say anything better than my father, uncle and aunt did a few years ago:
I’ve had this post in my head for the past couple of months I think. It occurred to me sometime in September that I was supposed to be married in October. Then October rolls around and it’s the month I was supposed to be married, still on my mind. October comes and goes, November is here and it’s still on my mind. Something about it won’t leave me alone, so I’m finally putting it down into words.
It almost feels like that last mental milestone in my brain had to be passed up before things could be completely closed. The last chapter had to be written even if there was nothing to write. Blank pages in a book. It’s a little hard to express really.
One thing comes through in all of it though:
Life is good. Life is damn good and I am one lucky and blessed guy to be able to lead the life that I am because of it not coming to pass.
This week saw our intrepid adventurers squaring off against the first of the remaining 7 Arms of Arachnid! After sneaking into the hub and fighting off the first wave of security the group found themselves facing off against none other than Max and Kurt aka The Turtle Twins!
This week featured many exciting developments for our characters as they left behind the Jolly Good Bread Factory after a fight with the second in command of security at the facility and his SWAT team. Are Tony and Susie done for good? What kind of future does Bishop have in store for him and why did someone want him dead so many years ago? Where the hell did Detroit disapear with Janet Li anyway? All these questions and more answered in this weeks installment.
For those of you who may not know my little cousin Will was paraplegic. From a very young age he was in a wheelchair, braces or could be found crawling around on the floor.
His spirit was undeniable, he had an amazing love of life and adventure. I think that if he were alive today to see this video he’d be saying he’d be the second to land a double back flip in his wheelchair. Or he’d be the first to land a triple.
It’s less than a week until I head off to the outskirts of Berea, Kentucky for the Clear Creek Music Festival once again. It’s a special time of year for a lot of friends and even more special for me as it’s kind of the anniversary of a lot of substantial and greatly needed changes and growth in my life that have occurred since.
When I went last year I was coming out of a terrible depression, I felt like I was completely aimless in my life and where I was going in it. I wouldn’t say that at Clear Creek that I found that purpose or direction, in a lot of ways I still feel like I’m searching for it. At the same time, it has set me on a course that is allowing me and has allowed me to grow a lot as a person. It sort of set off a chain reaction somewhere in my life that has lead me to where I am today.
I’ve decided to do a bi-weekly write up of my Feng Shui sessions. It’s a nice way for me to document it and also a nice way for the people that I start blabbering to about it to keep up so that they can blow me off by going “Oh yeah, I read about it on your blog.”
