Böcker av Ph.D. Donato

Ada: Our families have come to the realization, from seeing the love radiating from new life, that all are worthy, all need someone, and no one is an island. I heard an old adage, I can't recall by whom but it stated, "newlyweds become oldyweds and oldyweds are the reason that families work!" As for me, my work is just about complete here. My hope is that no one ever becomes deprived of family. Someday we'll all be old, but we're not a piece of meat where you eat the loin and throw away the bone. We all have feelings and need others. I'm off to be with NaNa of Meena's pizza and someday very soon the two of us will be altogether with our extended family. Oh, that reminds me, whatever happened to Joe and Jean?

The three words had been executed in primeval iron gall ink through the assistance of a quill pen sacrificed by a very uncooperative pheasant. The trio of verbiage was written on a petite section of aged and foxed vellum. At the documents bottom center resided a partially desiccated, mouse eaten, red wax seal now sunned to a pale pinkish orange. A once purple silk ribbon, finely woven, but now tattered and faded to periwinkle, attached itself to two items of grand and loyal significance. The pairing hung, the two treasures, like radiant stars in a night sky, mysteriously alluring and compellingly romantic.

In time the year being 1034 became filled with child. The citizens of the kingdom felt overjoyed. The warriors drank to the king and queen and their future son. Suddenly an ancient one, a woman of many many years appeared wearing skins from the bovine, formed into an ankle length dress, with long sleeves and a high neckline. On her feet were knee-high boots of long-haired yak hide. The woman's gray hair supported a crown of golden plover feathers.In one hand, the elderly unknown held an ostrich egg sized crystal. The other grasped a golden staff which helped stabilize the Sage. 'What appears on the outside may not be that which grows within.' The high pitched crackling voice caused the pronouncement to pause the celebration.

In the environs of Vatican City, Northern Rhodesia, and many parts of Europe Professors Barnes and Joel, along with their families, search for the lost years of Christ, His 7 Mary's, and the artifacts that promise eternal life. In the midst of intrigue, romance, adventure, and humor the duo battle evil forces that wish to usurp the world's power by way of pilfering the professors' findings. With the help of family, Francis the elephant, Francis the Pope, and a group of other eclectic characters the pair finally comes to a profound realization.