Building things and friendship

Hosting poker in New Paltz. Morning of, we realized we didn’t have a big enough table. Went to the job site where we were building a house (where David built a beautiful winding staircase) and gathered scrap materials. Finished by game time. That table has been in my dining room(s) for 38 years. We did jobs. The tools we used are in my shop. There was a boat in a basement and a novel and boat plans under the bed and great pork buns in the storefront below. There was Ivan the cockatoo who would bob and weave to James Brown. We found the loves of our lives at the same time and yes, they were there in plain sight all along. I’d ask David random questions just to hear him talk. It was a gift to have him in my life for a while. He was a remarkable human being.