Sorry about that ChocPi. I hope they do get back in touch with you.

Sinsull, there are many of us who feel the same way about the Mudcat. It is wonderful, isn't it?

Praise, thank you, but that is more than I had in mind, for myself. I mainly wanted to honour the traditions of my many friends here at the Mudcat who celebrate this holiday.

We do have a wonderful Jewish community here and I have to the Temple several times, as well as had the honour of sitting at the same table as the community "matriarch" and her husband, when we all had dinner with Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Hilda is a WWII survivor from Austria and a remarkable, extremely kind woman.

As part of my membership in and work with the Wyoming Grassroots Project, a human rights org., I try to promote and embrace all kinds of diversity. It is all so very interesting and enlightening and heartening. I am grateful when so many of us can come together and work towards those goals. It was in WGP that I met Hilda.

I also had a lot of friends and two former bosses back east who were Hebrew. I loved it when my kids were in grade school back there. They had friends who went to Herbew classes and their music teacher taught the whole class the "dreydl" song. It was so good for my kids to learn about so many different cultures and their traditions.

Thanks, again,

kat