Thank you, Gordon, for dropping by! As I said above, I really enjoyed “When My Mind Wanders…”. I still feel like a bit of a fool for not recognizing you even when you mentioned your name. Ah well, you are in good company: I travelled on a plane a few years back one seat behind Pierre Trudeau. I kept thinking this old, casually dressed gentleman with a backpack and bandaged hand looked familiar, and the flight attendents seemed unusually deferential towards him. When I got off the plane and half a dozen people came up to get his autograph (his bandaged hand gave him an excuse to slip away), his voice made the gears in my brain finally “thunk” into place.

I fully expect to be in Rome one day, chatting with some old germanic fellow in a funny hat, and wondering why he keeps blessing me…