Mazel tov to all of you! And that's a great kilt. Did you chose Gordon due to its use by Jews in Scotland?
Yes, that was one of my motivators but there were others, including our beloved Gordon Setter, who's in the picture with my wife and I. Here's a couple of pics from before the service (i.e. staged.) You can only get a catch a glimpse of the CLM's matching kippa, but the maker did a good job of working with tartan to make an appealing pattern.
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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