Welcome to Don’s Blog
August 31, 2007
This Blog has been created so that Jeanne and Don can keep everyone updated on their situation. PLEASE feel free to leave comments, good thoughts, and to share this with your web community. The more we can spread the message, we can help. Thanks for stopping by.
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Don…Suzy wrote and shared this address as the place to pour forth my true feelings regarding your health situation and natural repercussions. As one person she can count on to be On-Line at 6:30 in the morning, I wouldn’t dream of missing the opportunity to fulfill her expectations of me and I am right here on the spot to blog away.
No, you’ve never met me. You’ve never needed to know my face or name to touch my life and soul. You have just filtered down to me naturally through our shared relationship with Suzy.
Suzy is one of my dearest friends in this lifetime. We bonded years ago like kittens in a litter….protecting each other valiantly while simultaneously seeking comfort and validation. We’ve sung, danced, dreamed, cried, and sworn together. We’ve gotten mad, gotten drunk, partied ferociously, gone to church, hosted huge celebrations, and crept off quietly to meditate. We’ve raised our kids together, lamented our love lives, and triumphed over societal idiocy. She regressed me to my pre-Edwardian self and supplied the Rescue Remedy when my son died. If it’s a life lesson, we learned it together or passed on the data to the guy who missed out on the experience.She has knocked the corners off my cube and smoothed out the edges. And this friend has asked me to write to you in your present challenge. Would I even consider NOT writing to you? Of course not. Suzy says you are her rock, her touchstone, her beacon. By the geometric rule of transitivity, (one of the few things I retained from high school math) you must also be mine. If I love Suzy and Suzy loves Don, I also love you. Every shred of the love and caring you bestowed upon Suzy has contributed to the friend who has bolstered me through the darkest of dark moments and celebrated the heights of success. What you have created in her, she has created in me. And I thank you. Knowing she laments your condition hurts me to the core, but I will send back as my contribution the true knowledge that a man of your convictions is more than equal to the task you face. This will be one more opportunity for you to teach your many students (and subsequently their many students) that a love as huge as the bubble surrounding you will carry you and all of us gracefully through the transitions you are facing.
Blessed Be…Jayn