Rest in power Brother Dan

[Drunk Monk]

Donning Dan

So I've been wearing LB's pendant. The latch is a little tricky because I can't see tiny things well and I take it off to bath or for Kung Fu.  It's been a mindful mortality meditation, as if I don't have enough of those already.  I haven't been wearing any jewelry for the past few years.  Both Stacy and I have stopped wearing our wedding rings because our fingers have changed shape and they are no longer comfortable, plus we both have to remove jewelry for our respective practices.  I've been meaning to get my band resized because I prefer to wear it.  It helps deflect unwanted advances.

I've stopped carrying the skeletool Dan gave me for being best man at his wedding, swapping it for the sheffield folder I got at Wobbleland (http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...8#pid31448).  For a while, I felt that sheffield was cursed.  I got it on that turning point night when my mom called me home from that show because of her increasing back pain.  We didn't realize then how serious her injury was.  And being a 'found' blade, I didn't know the history and karma it might bear.  When I first carried it, I had some unlucky episodes.  I can get weirdly superstitious with blades.  Seems alright now tho.

But wearing the pendant and carrying the skeletool is way too much Dan to have on my person on a daily basis.  I love and miss the big guy, but there still must be boundaries.