Monday, January 23, 2012

My Uncle Nick

Allusions of Uncle Nick

Italian
Musician
Aunt Dorothy
Staten Island
Bungalow
Garden
Smells of the beach
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Steeplechase Horses
Ladies Skirts
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ebbets Field
A Pizza Parlor on the corner
Midnight Fast
Floral Park
Saturday nights
Playing cards
The kitchen table
Coffee and Pound Cake
Red wine and Crème Soda 
New Cape Cod
263rd St.
Sitting on the stoop
Richard
Dorothy
Ginny
The Texaco Star Theater, and Milton Berle
The Hit Parade and
Snooky Lanson
Jackie Gleason, Ralph Kramden
The Three Muskateers
Brooklyn College
Lifelong Friends
Christmas Photos
Massive Tree
Videotapes
Flight Simulator
Inquisitive Mind
Unending Questions
Creative Hands
Laughing Face
Faithful Husband
Loving Dad
Dear, Gentle Man
Uncle of my heart
                                       
By Mary Beth Fries Buchner

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Happy New Year

I have hesitated to write as I have felt shamed and feared offending.  
But as the new year begins, once again I will remember that I need to hope and believe in the impossible. I need to see in and through the darkness and I need to act boldly and expect the unexpected.     We all have wonderful gifts that need to be shared with each other.  We must continue to seek the light over and over again even in the face of devastation and danger and in spite of our overwhelming fears.   

May this New Year be a time of peace and love and joy.  May we understand and accept how wonderful and powerful we really are for we possess the greatest gift of all and with this Gift all things are possible.