"Michael Plant" wrote>
> I'm not absolutely sure I can honestly say
> I'm proud of you, Leon.
>
One doesn't do these things for admiration on the Rialto. One does these
things because by doing so, one lights a little candle in the darkness.
Because one feels a sense of duty to those of our tribe for whom sufferance
was the badge.

I am reserving "kishke" for him as the Hebrew word for osculation.

It is hard to fly like an eagle when one deals with so many turkeys.

Leon