Carole Fisher
When my Mom and Dad, Leo and Elsie Gorney, traveled the Southwest in their Tow Low Pop-Up Camper, they delighted in visiting Donna, her daughter Peggy on these trips. Special times, remembered w/photos and stories over the years, were visits to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson with guidance from niece Donna, a museum docent.
Her love for, care of animals was omni-present, inspiring, illuminating, as this cousin remembers. This is an enduring memory of Donna. And in memory of her profound connection, lived out in Donna’s life, excerpts from John Berger’s Why Look At Animals? In this essay, Berger asks, “What distinguishes us from animals,” and how do we perceive them? For example, “animals first entered the imagination as messengers and promises,” many with a “magical function,” living with us and around us in the world…their disappearance results in our solitude and loneliness as a species. They remain in our imagination as dreams and stories. As my remembrances are of you Donna.
With sympathy and empathy for Donna’s family,
Carole Gorney Fisher
Cousin