Some years ago, Ed and Carol were driving through Southern Maryland, and they saw a huge carved wooden gorilla at an antiques store. Ed always promised he would go back and get it one day.

After he was diagnosed with brain cancer, Ed swore he would go get the gorilla, and he would sit out on it and show the world that he was still there. Things didn’t quite turn out that way.  Ed soon became too ill to go to Maryland, and Carol went on their blog, the Bejosh Farm Journal, to ask for helping finding it.

A reader from Maryland remembered the gorilla, of course, and went to see if it was still there. It wasn’t, it had been sold years ago. Ed gave up on the idea.

Earlier in the week, a blog reader of mine, Gayle from San Francisco, sent me an e-mail saying a gorilla was on the way to me to give to Ed. I couldn’t quite imagine what she meant. Today, this quite adorable stuffed gorilla came to the farm and we brought it right over to Ed.

He just loved it immediately, named him “Eddie” and said he wished to sleep alongside him every night and keep him right on the bed with him all day. “Eddie” calmed him and soothed  him, it was the perfect gift at the right time.

Maria and Carol both fell in love with the gorilla also, Carol said he would be welcome to sleep in her bed if Ed didn’t want him. Ed does want him, and I think he isn’t going anywhere.

Thank Gayle, I don’t know who you are, but you did real good and I appreciate it, and so goes Ed. There are so many people in the world aching for a chance to do good. Some of them even do it.