Dear Michele,

I’m sure I have not specifically told you how knowing you, in your teens, and having your wise energy and emuliance in our home with Tahri and Rick, supported me , a single mother of two children with educational special needs of dyslexia, and helped anchor our family. Through the years, hearing of your call to education, especially to the courageous leaderships of charter schools, Tah, Rick and I felt that thing we call ” inner knowing” that ” Michele’s gifts will help heal the world”.

Then we heard of the situation that turned your life upside down as Danson’s incidence of infection changed his and your worlds beyond description.

Danson’s book, you little preferatory edits about the moods which precede or follow a letter, are powerful in the way things of great mystery are full of power of the Unknown.

I find his writings riveting- what I call spiritual”inner knowings” are instantly called into focus, re-righting my attitudes as poetry or exceptional prayer may.

Thank you, Michele, for this beacon.

My grandson, Rick’s step- son, has a type of autism. His maternal grandparents are both teachers and helped me with the book, A Will of His Own. I will see them next week-end and give them a copy of Danson’s book.

Thank you for sharing yourself so generously with your gift to the world, Danson and for publishing your journey with him as his teacher that he might now become our teacher.

With admiration and affection,

Vanessa (Gang)