iCandybyWangC

• Talking about death and near death as we were •

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We arrived at the store for the 2^nd week to find Sammer behind the cash register. (All links are to this iCandybyWangC.com website unless otherwise stated.) He loved the Growlers so much that he wanted to be on the serving side too and got a job at the store (JRC [RunORC.com]). The previous week he was training as a new staff member. Last week he was already looking like he belonged.

Jay-var and I did the Submarine Route in the 10°F frigidity with no one else making an appearance to join. When we returned and headed off to Human Robot, Sammer became one of us again and joined for the overrun.

We sat around drinking variations of beer and non. As we got going, I did too about my Miracle Man Teddy. The short version is that one of our dogs went into full cardiopulmonary arrest a mere 4 days before this at the age of 11 (He died.). Then he spontaneously resuscitated (He came back to life.). Read more at your own leisure, but the rest of the short version is that he seems to be completely normal again. Although dogs can be resuscitated using CPR, they don’t recover fully. As sobering as my account was, Jay-var’s was even more, because his was about the dog he once owned and a rescuer that had resuscitated him who then fit into the normal narrative (He died, period.).

Sammer restored the good humor of the overrun by sharing about himself and his high-school-runner glory days (They were glorious.). While Jay-var and I imbibed, he didn’t; so you can apply the term sober in a couple of different ways for the entire evening.

We’ll be developing our weekly routine with Sammer in his various roles, including as off-duty imbiber or not. If as the former, we may well continue defining the sobriety of each gathering with all its meanings.
     –CtCloser (Calvinthe), “Negative split or positive splat” #dothedue

FINE PRINT ¶Likeness used with permission. ¶Text and photos (unless otherwise stated): Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (CreativeCommons.org). ¶Cross-posted: (1) Facebook JRC Growlers Group Run (2026’02’04’W Run Message), (2) GGR email list, (3) Cerebruns by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Cerebrun with added caption and enumeration.

 

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