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Posted by Christina on October 27th, 2008

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Posted by Christina on October 26th, 2008

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This morning my son woke up and told me Grandpa’s butterfly was gone. I turned quickly to glance up at the lampshade to make sure it was still hanging there. Whew. It was.

My dad’s ashes are in a butterfly necklace and I have it near my bed. I look at it every night when I go to sleep and I must admit I talk to my dad. My son and I have never really discussed it.

“Grandpa is in there mommy.” Sebastian holds the necklace and tells me it is so cold. He starts blowing on it with his hands cupped the way I do with his hands when he is cold. He holds the necklace for a long time. “Grandpa likes this momma.”
My dad died four years ago. I held his hand as he stopped breathing. I’m a little sad today about something and thus my blogging.

Stop what you are doing right this moment and go video your parents and loved ones. Ask them questions. Get them on film. What I would give right now to just pop in a video and watch my dad.

Last year I did this with Sebastian’s grandmother and I know he will cherish it. My dad left before Sebastian was born and I am heartbroken he will have only my stories to know him.

I just sat here for a minute staring at my little boy. The back of his head, still scruffy with bedhead, playing with his cracker car. He just turned around and said, “Mom, I am not a TV. Stop looking at me.”

Funny. We don’t have a TV.

Maybe someday we will be able to pull our memories from our brains and dump them onto disk for others to see. Albeit a scary idea, it calms me a little now and helps the regret of not filming my pop.

GO get a Flip Camera. They are $100 - film your parents… your siblings and your best friends.

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Posted by admin on October 4th, 2008

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Hi. I’m in North Carolina. Charlotte to be specific. Watching the debates here has been incredible. The entire bar so interactive with the TV and totally mixed.

Civility. Finally. What we watched last night is the new relationship economy we are in. Being nice gets people somewhere - especially when they step outside of the moment and make people-oriented comments. Palin is a journalist and extremely comfortable in front of the camera. From a communication standpoint - her looking directly at the camera (yay) worked estremely well. Stylistically well done.

I asked everyone on the way here who their candidate was. 75% Obama and 25% Palin. Seriously. It was weird. I asked roughly 20 peeps and not one person mentioned McCain.

Dropping off my luggages at US Airways- I was over the weight limit. I had 40 books with me - I needed to take some out of a suitcase. Before I knew I was over the weight limit I did what I always do.. I chatted with the woman at the counter. We laughed about having two years olds.. How Tina Fey really did nail it on SNL… how my red and black pumps actually were comfortable. We were having a great time as she tried to get teh machine to work. The person next to me - was having a different experience - being short with the woman behind the counter and downright cold.

Funny thing. Both of us had oversized bags. I stopped to take some books out - after 2 books the woman helping me waved her hand and said - let’s just let it go. Thanks honey.

As I walked away I watched mean guy yelling at the customer service person as he took his stuff out of this bag.

Nice gets people stuff. It is a simple thing. I am still surprised when i see people treat customer service folks with disdain- it is against their self interest. The nicer we are the more we get. And of course, this is not why I do it. I do it because I am fascinated with people and want to hear from them. I’m lucky.

I don’t care what your politics are - everyone must admit - amazing strategy and performance last night by Sarah Palin. She confirms everthing I teach :Be the exact same person, you are on a good day with your closest friends, when you are standing in front of a group of humans. (with out drinking) It worked. it will give her momentum and the interviews of this week will lose momentum.

Biden’d high moment was talking about being a single dad and actually choking up.

Humans want humans.

Posted by Christina on October 3rd, 2008

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