Journey to Dine Bikeyah: Part 4

Of Didean and Marriage

The year of 2007 was a major one for me, as it saw one dream be born and die, only to re-birth another calling long laid aside as unable to do.  Didean, which in Irish Gaelic mean "shelter or haven" and "God's shelter",  was a dream of mine to create a safe haven and place of fellowship for those in the subculture communities.  When I found and was able to buy a two-story Victorian house built in 1905, I was excitic.  The day in June I got the keys for it, Robby came to help with it as a grounds keeper.  Neither he nor I had any intrest in eachother at that time.  Slowly we began to fix the place up to become the haven it's name entitled, but tides were turning.  That October the place where I worked for good money, closed its doors.  The economic downturn had begun. 

By this time, Robby and I had begun to really care for eachother, and on November 14th, 2007, he asked me to be his wife.  I said, "Yes!"  The next morning, the first person Robby called to tell about us being engaged was his mentor, Dino Butler.  After he got off, I asked more about Dino and how Robby knew him.  That is when Robby and I learned, both of us had been called to Dine Bikeyah long before we knew the other.  For 11 years at that time had he been waiting, and I had been waiting 9 years.  Both of us had thought the doors had closed.  Thus as the doors of Didean for ever closed, and we were married December 15th, 2007.... the doors of Dine Bikeyah began to swing open for us, together.


Still, there would be at least two more chapters before we were safely on the eastern side of the Rez, and those chapters are following: Chicago and Flagstaff