Monday morning dawns late around here, Tony Bennett is already chatting amiably with Leonard Lopate.   Lopate asks a joking question and Bennett answers with his great, gentle laugh.  Why am I listening to Tony Bennett?  Then again, listen to him.

Somehow people get themselves to do tasks, then play later, if they get a chance.  I have many tasks to do, but all I want to do… yes, yes, never mind.   The children of my good friends used to tell people that I was a child like them.  I was forty at that time.   These kids are all older than me now, out in the world, making deals.

OK, enough of this, time to put my shoulder to the wheel, get out in the world and start making deals.   Let’s make a deal.