Joe Davis in 2005 - The Monday Morning Memo

When Joe Davis arrived on our doorstep in 2005, he just wanted to be anywhere but Tulsa. He did a marvelous job for us during the years that he helped build Chapel Dulcinea and the Wizard Academy campus.

He went on to became a real estate agent and then a highly successful broker. After Daniel Denny passed away and Sean Taylor left us to launch a highly successful solar energy business, Joe Davis returned to the Academy to become our third Construction Project Manager.

Lightning struck when he met Indigo, who was working in the Welcome Center. They fell in love and got married, but his father John was too sick to attend the wedding and, in the words of Kurt Vonnegut… so it goes.

And so it goes.

“My brother, Eddie, died on Christmas day of 2010. My fondest memories of him go way back to when I was in fifth grade and Eddie was in eighth. We played football on Curtiss Street with our neighborhood buddies.

Eddie could rifle a football faster and more accurately than anyone I knew. Most often, he had me go out for short passes and my hands and arms stung from catching the ball. Our team made short gains as we slowly worked our way toward the end zone, which was the Mulhalls’ driveway.

But once in a while, Eddie would wink at me and say, “Go long, Donnie.” Those were magic words. I would take off as fast as I could, past the parked white Edsel and the beat-up Mercury.

Eddie would drop the ball in my outstretched hands for a touchdown and my whole world felt perfectly wonderful.

Today, when I get emotionally down with chronic pain or a business deal is in serious jeopardy, I hear my brother back on Curtiss Street telling me, “Go long, Donnie.”

I listen to him and everything is the way it should be.”

- Don Kuhl, April 15, 2019

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