Last night, in Corvallis, after a two-year Covid-19 hiatus, The Magic Barrel: A Reading to Fight Hunger returned to the 100-year-old Whiteside Theater. The Magic Barrel is an event featuring live music and readings by local writers to raise money for Linn-Benton Food Share. Ehud was one of the event's co-founders, over a quarter of a century ago now. We invoked his name last night, as part of our celebration of the Barrel's history of community generosity. I told the story of how one day Ehud came into my home study and saw a book called A Dictionary of Angels on my bookshelf. He asked why I had it. I had just picked it up one day out of curiosity. "Let me show you something," he said. He turned to the book's acknowledgments page and pointed out the name Meir Havazelet, one of the scholars who'd helped the book's author track down obscure winged creatures for his compendium. "My father," Ehud said to me, with the mix of loving pride, perplexity, irony, and exasperation he often expressed when speaking of his dad. It did not then, and does not now, surprise me to know that, somehow, Ehud had angels in his background, even if that background sometimes burdened him. He remains one of the Angels of the Magic Barrel, an ongoing legacy of giving to the homeless and needy in the Willamette Valley which Ehud loved and where he now rests. In this season of remembrance, we were honored to say his name.