Danita the Apple

OK, weird how there IS no Q&R question today. 

I've had requests for a blog about Danita, and I wasn't going to do it, but could there be a clearer sign than this?  I guess my Q&R "Q" of today is:  Write about Danita. 

It's difficult to write about your beloved friend, because you want to share the stuff that makes your experiences with that person so cool, but you don't want to break any confidences or say anything too personal, so how can I write this?

Danita, you see, is a radiant warrior of the Heart, and a shining Star.  She is my true sister from another mother.  She once told me that I can be "mousy," and it's true.  She's really annoying, and she's also absolutely right when she observes things.  She is a rehabilitative psychologist.  She helps people with severe physical or psychological setbacks to find new ways to live and thrive and create a good life for themselves.  She is also a psychology teacher in the community colleges and my beloved colleague.  She is a brilliant teacher----a kickass teacher with a huge heart, tremendously smart, wise, compassionate.

She loves chocolate, videos, going to movies, traveling, the ocean, Jesus, Elvis, her children and her dad and her stepmom, Eglee, who is a super-cool lady in her own right, and her brother Christopher, and her beautiful grandchildren.  She loves to play guitar and sing, and we like to sing together.  We like Carole King.  She taught me how to create this great incense-type room deodorizer by sprinkling a little cinnamon on a hot stove burner and letting it smoke.  Give it a try!

About three years ago she and her dad were bringing some pizza and chicken to a student end-of-the-year party on the last day of school at one of our local community colleges.  A car, driven by a drunk and high woman, ran a red light and T-boned their car on the passenger side.  Her dad had been driving and she was the passenger.  They had to remove her with that "jaws of life" thing.  The woman had no insurance, and she disappeared into the mists of the cracks where people with unaddressed pain and deep issues slip into, in our society, and nobody has seen or heard from her since.  Danita says that she would just like to get the woman to apologize to her some day. 

Now, three years later, she is still dealing with back issues, and with all the things that can be impacted by back issues.  Who knew?  I won't get into the details, but you'd be surprised.  The back can affect all your internal organs.  Anything it wants to.  It's not the ecological trigger point of your body that you'd want to mess with. 

But that's not the major thing about Danita.   She is all about her work.  In addition to the above information, she has her own nonprofit organization, called Whiteapple Institute.  The goal of Whiteapple Institute is to make sure that every person in the world, every child in the world, gets an education and the opportunity to earn their own livelihood with dignity and fairness.  For example, in some countries if a person has a physical disability, that person is condemned to a life of begging on the streets, and would never have a chance to learn to read or anything like that.  Danita works with groups around the world to give opportunities to children who wouldn't have them, to learn to support themselves.  She is sort of a "rehabilitative psychologist to the world," as well as a clear and insistent voice for human rights.

And that's Danita.  Apple.  In a nutshell.  Please send her Love and Light as she battles her infections.      Now WHEN she gets them under control,   THEN  she will get to have an operation to stabilize her back, so that she can get her life back.  Please help her out with that, too.  OK?   Thank you deeply from my heart.  And Danita thanks you for your friendship.