Where are you now, Cathi Goolsbee? I am not sure that I spelled either of her names right. When I knew her she from deep in the heart of Texas. The year after I got out of the Navy I lived in Oakland, CA and worked with Young Life at Skyline High School. The opportunity came for me to work at Young Lifes’ Woodleaf for six weeks in the summer of 1980. I had dropped out of school and was just living on my GI Bill and savings, when I got the call to come be the gardener at Woodleaf for the first six weeks of the summer. On May 31 Stephanie Tobosa, someone else and I all drove up to Woodleaf to begin our summer service. While summer staff was there for six weeks we had work crew that was there for three weeks. All the summer staff had to be at least 2 years out of high school and work crew were juniors or seniors in high school.

As the gardener I had a person from work crew who worked with me, she was called the water girl. Basically she helped with all the watering and such that we had to do. We had something like six big marigold beds, 20 or 30 rose bushes, a football field and numerous lawns that we were responsible for. Cathi came with a group of work crew from Texas, and everytime I hear Willie Nelson sing Mamas’ Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys I think of them. Cathi was a real help and remember she did it all while having to take multiple meds multiple times a day. She was a good friend and we stayed in touch for a little while and then as invariably happens you just lose touch. I have never forgotten her or her smile from those three weeks we worked together. Cathi, if you are out there drop me a email at chainreader@hotmail.com