For Mike Goldhammer's Memorial Service though mike had his funny side he was definitely not a moon and june and swoon kind of guy not a wordsworthian fellow daffodils in bloom and all that he had a smile he tended the yard he worked hard he made money he looked after his family he was above all grounded it came as news to me that mike was actually a morris a name which causes one to think of cats i can't quite see mike as a cat an exile from a pride of lions perhaps an old male, compact and tough puttering on walker road when asked how he was to me he would always say in his short gruff way i'm on the right side of the daisies and then he'd smile but ask him how to pronounce something in hebrew and he would give you he na ne here I am the fact is he no longer is and that's a shame but my best guess is knowing him that from time to time on the other side if it's at all possible he'll be giving the daisies an occasional push David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html