.....................about Donna..................

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Are you adding a note or a person?

  Have you ever met anyone in your life where it was almost "love at first sight." That is how it was for me when I met Donna. I think of myself as different yet not peculiar. My taste in friendship leans  towards merriment, diversion, joviality, tomfoolery  buffoonery, high spiritedness and  compassion. She could only be described as joyful, charming, cheery, witty and full of a deeply intense spirit  that lights up her being. The kind of spirit most people would find intoxicatingly impressionable. A more benevolent individual I have yet to meet. 

She is well read in the metaphysical, bible, and more books on spirituality than  ALL the books I  own! She is an enthusiast......................a naturalist.............. survivalist.............a humanitarion and like me "bout as crazy as they come".

I'm not sure I really appreciated laughter at its purest form, until I knocked on her door just days after her Mother's passing. She was in mourning...............and I was in love with her spirit.

Within days of meeting we were inseperable. 

Donna spent over 30 years working for Delta.................and has lived in California for about 40 years. Her Mom lived next door to me. For 15 years Donna would visit her Mom 2-3 times a year...........and we talked only once or twice in all that time. She appeared elegant, worldly and professional........but so intensely warm.

Her Mom dying so suddenly brought her to Cincinnati, along with her sister Carol. Their job for the next 8 months would be to settle the estate and sell the house. The two sisters had an often troubled history,....................and so living together again............making decision upon decision.......agreeing........disagreeing................tempers flared ...................grief and love united.

And in between it all we danced..........around Carol...........around Greg..........around life..............and had the times of our lives. Partied in Over the Rhine..................took a taxi home at 2:00am because DONNA wouldn't leave.................claimed she was going till the good times ran dry........................ugh! I begged, then pleaded..................then I gave up..........for a while.........and then I called a Taxi and forced her to come. No small task that. If only, if only I had known her as I do now!

Went to Oktoberfest at the Madeira Inn................we walked there  ( only a few minutes from home) and Donna has to pee............so no, we can't stop somewhere like a store.......she has to go now!.............in the bushes!! and laughed and laughed and laughed.....................a true naturalist. We never did anything extraordinary by the measure of most. And yet we shared the most extraordinary thoughts and insights and love of great spiritual books. She was my teacher..................and the love she brought into my life was one of the realest things I have experienced.

We laughed harder at her kitchen table than I can ever remember laughing in my life. We were just high on each other's company. And have been ever since.

On Thursday..................She's coming to visit and help me put my bees into the hive.

I wait impatiently till then.