Assembling the parts of my home-made card in the downstairs of my house
Did the painting on the screened-in back porch - so as not to breathe in the paint fumes - tripping over the porch furniture Judy Diaz gave me before moving to Boulder. Told me when we chatted last nite that they're having blizzards - and I don't mean the Dairy Queen kind.
Wanted her to come over but she was exhausted since she 'opened' at Starbucks this morning.
I forgot to include among the 'shades' my brother David Richard Greenwold until I saw his photo downstairs. Oy, I felt so sad as I pasted his name on the card.
The card is reversible with separate messages on each side.
I forgot to include among the 'shades' my brother David Richard Greenwold until I saw his photo downstairs. Oy, I felt so sad as I pasted his name on the card.
The card is reversible with separate messages on each side.
Am gonna wait to mail it until Scott gets up shortly. I want him to see my handiwork.
Family will attend Selma's b'day party at her house on Silsby Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, near our childhood home.
Her son/law Jack Fogel will cook the meal. Selma has macular degeneration, gotten late in life, but she'll enjoy herself anyway.
She has the most fantastic family. My mom wants to drive out to Cleveland to spend time there. I'm game!
Family will attend Selma's b'day party at her house on Silsby Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, near our childhood home.
Her son/law Jack Fogel will cook the meal. Selma has macular degeneration, gotten late in life, but she'll enjoy herself anyway.
She has the most fantastic family. My mom wants to drive out to Cleveland to spend time there. I'm game!
TO AUNT SELMA
ON HER 95th BIRTHDAY
April 22, 2013
The house
on Silsby Road
once
rang with
life
we ran up
the porch steps
into a
living room-dining
room
filled with
art and
literature
a blaring
TV
everything
that meant
safety –
security –
a million more
tomorrows –
and
dark
futures barely
glimpsed except in
the Press
and the Plain
Dealer
The Cleveland
Jewish News
Chevy in
the drive –
brisket in the oven
pop
chilling on the back
porch
the gods
allow all this
a temporary
reprieve as we
glide up
the
escalator of years
Selma’s a party girl
her steep
flight of stairs
keeps her young as
when she
and Marv were
married
Did he ever
leave?
she can
close her eyes and
see him still
handsome
high cheekbones
a tough
fighting Magyar until
he
gave up the
ghost on Saint
Paddy’s Day
Let the
party begin
what a time
to be born
the
beginning of spring
O smell
those daffodils
and hyacinth
let them
seep through
these ancient walls
soft to the
touch and
fragrant
cozying up
to the belle of
the ball
Selma Bernstein Greenwold
now and
forever more.
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