Friday night – mishpocha

Here in Baltimore with my mishpocha. Mispocha is a wonderful Yiddish word that means ‘more than family’ .. it’s relatives, in laws ex-laws close friends that everyone always assumed were related , neighbors and dogs . I found one translation that said the closest English word in meaning might be ‘clan’

We’re gathered at the houses of my great aunt Ellen.. and her daughter suzy who lives next door .. for their annual huge Passover Seder . That will be tomorrow night . Tonight was just a warm up of eating drinking and catching up.


Ok .. gotta tell more stores tomorrow . Falling asleep as I type

Nite all, nite sam
-me

It’s a really diverse group of folks .. physicists , doctors lawyers, teachers , Artists, dancers




It’s

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *