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.

“When I read stories about people—usually young men—doing incredibly dangerous things for the momentary bragging rights or ‘glory’ of pulling it off, I think about my little heuristic: ‘Is it worth it?’ For instance, there’s a tradition in Yellowstone to go ‘hot potting.’ This is when you briefly jump into a thermal spring. The problem is not hard to guess. If you don’t do a little research, you can jump into the wrong cauldron. Or you can jump in the wrong spot and not be able to get out. Whatever. Some springwater can reach near-boiling temperatures, and you can very easily die. (In 2016, a young man died and was quickly liquified due to a mixture of the heat and acidic water.) Would it be cool to pull it off? Yup. Worth the risk? Nope.”

- Jonah Goldberg, Oct 17, 2025

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