If we live on, it is (so far as we can prove) in the way that others think, feel and act that they would not, had they not known us. One need not be old to make this impression." No man," Donne wrote, "is an island entire of itself."

Even those of us who "knew" Ezra only through this odd, electronc world
carry a miniscule bit of him with us. It is not what his family and friends carry. Still, it is there.

Wish I'd known the real man. You who did are blessed. Hence the pain.

And hence my condolences,

- G