On one job restoring mausoleums in the oldest cemetery in New Orleans in particular (St. Louis number 1) I was down below grade in the crypt when a group of preservationists came by in a tour, holding glasses of wine and one woman hollered down into the hole to me “Hey …new in town”? and passed down her glass of wine to me. She was Belinda Stewart, a preservation architect from Mississippi. Red hair and crazy which attracts me.

I invited her down into the hole; she quite smartly declined and she said why not meet her and her friends for dinner in the quarter (French quarter). I did. I can clean up nice and I met them in the quarter where our mutual interests in restoration led to a friendship then a love relationship and eventually we were married. Today she is my beloved. We have a daughter Mary (aka peanut) and one granddaughter Anniston Leigh. When Bea tells the story how we met in the cemetery she says “I was the only live one there!“

I am mostly retired now and live on a 100 year old horse farm.

I am a horse whisperer, a polarity therapist and a certified Heart Math therapist. I have a healing studio in my home where I receive clients and I am a member of many on line learning communities for healing and for masonry restoration.

Michael Davidson