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I’M FOR BERNIE
It is December, 2015, eleven months before the presidential election. Candidates for the Democratic and Republican nominations have already been campaigning for close to a year. The GOP had about 16 candidates and is now down to half that number. The Democrats started with five and are down to three.
Actually there are only two—Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders—and I suspect many Sanders supporters doubt that Bernie can get the nomination. 2016 is supposed to be Hillary’s coronation. If Bernie’s people are like me, they are excited that a democratic socialist is getting the kind of coverage, crowds and contributions that he is getting. What Bernie is doing is educating America, and pushing Hillary to the left. Nobody has done anything like that before. Bernie is giving Hillary a run for her money. And she has big money behind her. It was supposed to be a shoo-in. The DNC is for Hillary, and they stacked the debates for her. Still, Bernie might even take New Hampshire.
In 2008, we elected a black president. In 2016, we are supposed to elect a woman. Why not a Jewish socialist? I should note that Bernie made it clear from the start that he is in this race to win, not to educate America or push Hillary to the left. When he started, the polls gave Hillary over 60% to Bernie’s less than 5%. By July, Hillary was still over 6o% and Bernie at 12%. As of this writing, it is 56% to 34%. And 43% of Democratic voters say that Bernie shares their values.
Bernie has raised real issues, and the crowds are coming out to cheer him. He is talking about what many of us have been talking about most of our lives: Income and wealth inequality, decent paying jobs, a living wage, free public higher education, getting big money out of politics, civil rights, women’s rights, single payer health care. And he has an impressive resume: Mayor, Congressman, Senator.
Come on. Did we ever, in the furthest stretch of our imagination, envision a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn, and a democratic socialist, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, and having a chance of getting it and being elected?
In 1932, and I assume in 1928, my mother voted for the Socialist Party candidate, Norman Thomas. After FDR was elected in 1932, Socialists accused him of stealing the Socialist Party platform. Almost everything that FDR did to get America out of the depression had been originally proposed by Thomas.
In 1936, my mother’s union, the ILGWU, together with several other “socialist” unions, formed the American Labor Party in New York to enable workers to vote for FDR without having to vote the capitalist Tammany star. Dubinsky was a practical man. America wasn’t going to elect Thomas. Support Roosevelt, and we will have a president who will support organized labor.
Many of us used to accuse our parents of voting for any candidate who is Jewish. What is wrong with that if the Jewish candidate is concerned with advancing Jewish concerns and protecting Jewish interests in a period of racism and anti-Semitism? They emphasized Rabbi Hillel’s “If I am not for myself, who will be for me…” The next generation emphasizes “But if I am only for myself, what am I?” A good democratic socialist position. Bernie is fighting for Tikkun Olam, to repair the world; for a Shenere un Besere Velt, a more beautiful and better world.
I regret that the two democratic socialist thinkers and writers who best articulated the position that Bernie holds, my heroes Michael Harrington and Irving Howe, are not around to enjoy Bernie’s success. Thanks to Bernie, socialism is no longer a dirty word, and no longer equated with communism. And people are finally getting the message that America’s millionaires and billionaires are really calling the shots, ands it does not have to be that way.
For years, we have been voting for the lesser of two evils. We went to the polls and held our nose and voted. We had to be practical. With Bernie, we have someone who is everything we could want in a candidate. And if he gets the nomination, he won’t be a third party candidate. He will be running as a Democrat. A Democratic Socialist! I’m for Bernie.
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IF LOVE IS BLIND,
DOES THAT MEAN, IF YOU SEE
ALL THE FAULTS OF THE ONE YOU LOVE,
YOU DON’T LOVE HER?
We have been married for 34 years. I would estimate that for the last quarter century, all the faults I have seen, and have had to live with, have been driving me crazy. If I did not see them, if I was oblivious to them, if I was able to smile and say, “That’s Fran, ha ha,” it would indicate that I loved her despite the faults. Seeing the faults and letting them drive me crazy must mean something.
Besides “love is blind,” another expression is “love conquers all.” What is love? It is a feeling one person has for another. Were we in love when we married? Or did we marry because Fran was pregnant? What bothered me about Fran when we first met and during our first years together? Nothing of any consequence that I can remember. She may have been late, may have stayed up late, may have gotten up late, but I don’t remember that bothering me the way it does now. She may have overbought, may have squirrelled stuff away, may have filled up the shelves and freezer with food, but I don’t remember that bothering me either. I certainly felt that we were in love.
What bothered me first, was her complaining about our first real home: 40 Evans Road. If we were in love, I suspect I should have been blind to her complaining (or more accurately, deaf.) She complained about the wallpaper in the dining room, about the kitchen, about the living room, about the basement, about the back yard, and about the garage. True, it was more house than we needed, but I felt very comfortable in it, and did not object to the wallpaper in the dining room, the kitchen, the living room, the basement, the back yard, though I had concerns about the garage. Fran found an architect to redo the kitchen. Unfortunately, it turned out that the cost was prohibitive, so rather than accommodate to the kitchen, Fran’s solution was to move. We moved—from Evans Road to Greenough Street.
It was on Greenough Street that the “freezer phenomenon” got me. We had a freezer compartment in the refrigerator in the kitchen and a large freezer in the basement. Within a few months, both were filled to capacity. How explain this phenomenon? The “depression mentality?” Fear of going hungry? Overbuy, and freeze whatever it is that you don’t need right away. I have only one or two items that I put in the freezer: ice cream, and on occasion, bagels. I can not find room for them.
In 2004, we moved to the Brook House. We have a large three bedroom apartment. Fran has her office; I have mine. There is a glass dining room table in the dining room. There is my old teak dining room table in our bedroom. Fran’s office is crammed with papers, clothing and books, and it is almost unusable. Both tables are now covered with papers and books, and they are almost unusable. I am also a hoarder, a collector, an accumulator of papers and books, but I am an amateur compared to Fran.
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I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT!
We get the NY Times every day. I read the first section, and though most of the news—local, national, international-- makes me unhappy, I understand it. However, as soon as I turn to the business section, now called “Business Day,” I am in the dark. They write about deals I can’t understand, technology that is beyond me, and companies that I have no idea what they do, or what function they serve. As I was about to consign the June 3, 2015 business section to the recycle pile, the lead story, headlined, “After Deal, Whence Huffington Post?” caught my eye. The writer, Ravi Somalya, observed that, “…an array of media companies, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals have quietly explored buying a stake in the Huffington Post.”
I think I know what venture capitalists and wealthy individuals are, but what I thought of as media companies, has changed. It used to be newspapers and magazines, radio and TV stations. The subhead mentions Verizon. It must be a media company, like Sprint and RCN. I have a cable/phone/internet package with RCN, and I keep getting letters from Verizon urging me to switch.
Next, what is the Huffington Post? I have to admit I have never read it. The article says it is a “site.” Where can I find it? I remember someone on one of the Sunday talk shows was identified as a reporter for Huntington Post. Is he on salary, or does he get paid by the article? And why would venture capitalists and wealthy individuals want to buy a stake in the Huntington Post? How does it make money? The article says its most recent valuation was about $1billion, “and it built its growth on relentless aggregation and search engine optimization,” whatever that means. Does it sell ads? Are its stories syndicated?
AOL bought it in 2011 for $315 million, and now Verizon bought AOL for $4.4 billion! Why did Verizon buy AOL? It has been around for 10 years “and built its growth on relentless aggregation and search engine optimization,” whatever that means. It hired several well known journalists and won a Pulitzer prize in 2012 for national reporting. It gets 200 million visitors a month.
So, it is like a news service. And why did Verizon buy AOL? According to Mr. Somalya, for its “advertising technology,” whatever that means. In addition, HP will be able to provide Verizon with “mobile video offerings,” whatever that means. According to a venture capitalist, that is where the future is.
Just below that story was “Instagram to Open Its Photo Feed to Ads.” This one was written by Vindu Goel. (I guess if you are writing about technology, it helps if you, or your parents, are from India.) He described Instagram as a mobile photo-sharing service. It was bought by Facebook in 2012. The big news is that it will open its feed to ads. It has 300 million users. I am not one of them. It will be able to target ads by interest, age, gender etc. just as they can on Facebook. They are also testing ads that will allow viewers to click on a link to buy a product. A Wall Street firm estimated that Instagram can bring in $1.3 billion to $2.1 billion in additional revenue to Facebook, this year alone. Instagram’s founder built the feed as “a place to relax and appreciate beautiful photos and videos…that users have chosen to follow.” He also got $1 billion when he sold it to Facebook. Ads will change that. But then everybody is going to make a lot of money. How, I don’t know.
And finally, another story, by Mike Isaac (a non-Indian) describing how “Pinterest, the online social scrapbooking service” has added a “buy it” button to retailers’ posts. Again, I never heard of Pinterest, but the article says it was founded in 2009 by entrepreneur Ben Silberman, and it has raised more than $1.3 billion in venture capital, and is valued at $11 billion. Oh boy! It has an audience of more than 75 million in the US. I am not one of them. The shopping is expected to be done on mobile devices. Payments will be powered by Stripe, an e-commerce start up, and Braintree, a payments processing company owned by Pay Pal.
If I am correct, all this is a modern day variation of buying and selling. When I was a kid, I gave the candy store man a nickel, and he gave me a newspaper. The newspaper company had an owner, the owner hired a publisher, the publisher hired an editor, the editor hired reporters, the reporters wrote the stories that appeared in the newspaper, alongside ads. The owner made a profit because people bought the paper and companies placed ads in the paper.
People worked at all kinds of jobs. Some made things: cars, steel, clothes, food, fuel, books, buildings, roads, Some sold things, including the things other people made Some did things for other people: teachers, hospital workers, hotel and restaurant workers, transportation workers, government workers. There were businessmen who owned businesses that employed the people that did all these jobs. There were Federal, state and local governments where the people who were elected to run them, employed people to do other jobs.
And I was nervous and excited when I got my first check book and credit card. I had to comprehend that it would be the equivalent of cash money.
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HORSERACING
American Pharoah won the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby. Mazel Tov! The horse was the favorite and it didn’t pay much ($7.80). I really don’t know much about horseracing. Like most everybody else, I get caught up in all the hoopla, and can’t avoid the newspaper, and TV coverage given the Kentucky Derby.. I also know a few horseracing jokes, but I will skip them for now. What I want to describe are my first and second visits to a racetrack:
It was 1959 or 1960. I had been working at the Jewish Labor Committee for a few years. Great job. A new staff person was hired. His name was Irving Panken. It was summer, and we were not very busy. Irving came into my office one morning and asked if I would like to go with him and a friend to Belmont. I was surprised. I told him that I did not think of him as a horseplayer. He said that he isn’t, but his friend is.
He explained that his friend has been playing the horses for a long time. It is a passion with him. He is a first rate handicapper. He works at the post office, but has a flexible schedule which enables him to go to the track. He also takes vacation timed to when horses are racing at Santa Anita and other tracks around the country. He usually wins. And he occasionally takes his friends along.
I said, why not. Irving called his friend, who had a car, and who picked us up. We signed out, and off we went. Irving’s friend had a copy of the Morning Telegraph, which he had marked up. We arrived at the track early, and we headed for the stands as Irving’s friend studied how the odds were changing for the first race. When he had made his choice, he asked Irving and me to give him all our money. We emptied our wallets: Irving had about $80, and I had about $40. He looked annoyed. Apparently one does not come to the track with $40.
With just a few minutes to go, he placed the bet. He was kind enough to tell us which horse he bet on, so we could yell encouragement to the horse. Despite our yelling, it did not win. Irving’s friend did not seem to be too disappointed. He began studying the Racing Form for the second race. Again, I don’t how much he is betting, nor why he is waiting until the last minute. I am fascinated by the whole business: the crowd, the track, the horses, the jockeys, the smells. This time the horse he bet on won. Over the next few races, I watch him and am awed. He is a walking calculator. He is processing an awful lot of information.
I innocently ask him how he picks the horses. He looks at me derisively. It is clear that he knows what he is doing. He is a professional. If I want to bet on the horses, like some of the amateurs, he rattles off a number of things that might cause me to pick one horse over another: the name, the number, the position in the lineup, the color of the jockey’s silks, the jockey, the trainer, the owner. He does not mention the most obvious reason: how the horse did in previous races. (I suspect I would not have bet on the Derby winner American Pharoah because I did not like the horse’s name, nor the owner’s name, Ahmed Zayat.)
Obviously, the horse that people think is the best in the race has the lowest odds. But the odds shift. Sometimes the favorite falls out of favor. Turns out that Irving’s friend has a policy of not betting on a horse when the odds are less than 5 to 1. And he only bets to win. He doesn’t fool around. It takes nerve and knowledge to bet the way he does. If I remember correctly, he picked four or five winners that afternoon, and was disappointed with himself. He did not come out ahead. I think he gave me back $38. I was delighted. I had a totally new experience, a wonderful afternoon, and it only cost me the price of admission and a couple of bucks.
Several years later, we had moved to Washington DC, it was summer and we had discovered the West Virginia State Parks. We were vacationing at Cacapon, which was located near a racetrack. I suggested that we go to the track. The family was all for it. We arrived a few minutes after the first race. I obtained a racing form, picked a horse in the second race that looked good, trying to replicate the way Irving’s friend assessed the horses, except that I bet $2 on the horse to show. I would win some money even if the horse came in third. And I won. My family was impressed. I collected my winnings, and we had a wonderful evening placing safe bets. Again, it only cost me the price of admission and a couple of bucks.
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HOLIDAY STORIES
Note: I get an idea. I sit down at my computer and write. After I write, I reread what I have written and make corrections. It is called editing. Yesterday, I had an idea, and sat down at my computer and wrote, I had not finished. I wanted to check something. I left what I had written in the computer, and checked. When I returned to what I had written, it was no longer there. I searched and searched. I called a friend who knows a great deal more about computers than I. He asked if I had “saved” the piece. I said I did not. He said that it is most likely lost. I was very disappointed. It is very difficult to recreate what had been written. Nevertheless, I will give it a shot, but I doubt that it will be as good as the piece I started.
A SUKKOS STORY
AND A HIGH HOLIDAYS STORY
The High Holidays are over, and I just read a story by S Y Agnon called The Etrog. (I stull call the thing that looks like a big lemon an esrog, with an “s,” and I call the holiday when Jews bentsh esrog, and put up a sukkah, Sukkos.) The story describes how very important it is to observant Jews to buy a perfect esrog, and how some rabbis who have very little money will nevertheless take all the money they have to buy the perfect esrog.
The story tells, in passing, of the Rabbi from Neshkiz who was about to do exactly that. As he was on his way to make the purchase, he passed an old man who was crying beside a dead horse. When he asked the man why he was crying, the old man explained that he is a water carrier, and the horse that pulls his wagon is dead, and now so is his livelihood. The rabbi gave all the money for the esrog to the man to buy a horse. What is the difference, he thought. The esrog is one of God’s commandments, but so is giving charity. Let someone else say the blessing over the esrog. He will bless this horse.
The High Holidays story is about a young man who had committed himself to lead services at a retirement community for the High Holidays, and who, on the day before Rosh Hashanah, had gone to the local Starbucks to study and prepare. He was immersed in study when a homeless man approached him and said he was hungry. He asked the young man for some money so that he could buy a banana. The young man reached into his pocket and took out his wallet. He only had a $20 bill. He gave it to the homeless man, assuming he would go to the counter, take a banana, pay for the banana, and return the change to him. Instead, the homeless man took the $20 bill and walked out of Starbucks. I do not know if the homeless man said thank you, or if he turned around and waved. My guess is that he pocketed the bill and left very quickly. The young man was surprised and taken aback. This was a different scenario from the one he assumed. He went back to studying and preparing for the High Holiday services.
I have been saying Yizkor on Yom Kippur for my father ever since my Bar Mitzvah. I say it in Hebrew and in English. For years, I have been uncomfortable when, after asking God to remember the soul of my father who has gone to his eternal home, I say, “I pledge tzedakah to help perpetuate ideals important to him.” The fact is, I have no idea what ideals were important to him, and I have never once given tzedakah after saying Yizkor on Yom Kippur, even to support ideals important to me. I certainly give tzedakah, but it is unrelated to Yizkor. It would be dishonest of me to give tzedakah after Yizkor, that I give at another time of year, claiming that it is related to having asked God to remember my father’s soul.
The young man’s act of tzedakah got me to thinking. First, it is like the Rabbi who gave his esrog money to the poor water carrier. Second, it can also be considered something like “paying it forward.” When the time comes to pledge tzedakah when saying Yizkor on Yom Kippur, (may it be many years from now) he can justifiably say he has already given.
9-26-15
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HOLIDAY_STORIES
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRAN
The sixth of November, twenty fifteen.
As special a day as ever I’ve seen.
Frannie turns 80, and everyone cheers.
Champagne for you, I’ll have one or two beers.
We’ll toast my beloved, and we’ll have a ball.
If there’s music and dancing, I’ll try not to fall.
From July ’81, we’ve shared life together.
In sunshine and rain, in all kinds of weather.
A remarkable feat, just four short months later.
David appeared, and you were his mater.
Having a baby at age 46.
Considered by some, one of life’s greatest tricks.
You did it with style, an outstanding mother.
And as David grew, we helped one another.
He brought us much pleasure, and also much joy.
These days as a man; then as a boy.
As David grew, we also grew older.
I wrote lots of poems, which I put in a folder.
In 2007, lung cancer struck.
But thanks to BI, you were in luck.
Their doctors were good, and they made you better.
You followed instructions right to the letter.
True, lung cancer treatment did leave its mark.
Chemo etc, is no walk in the park.
Yet eight years later, you are still here.
Another good reason to stand up and cheer.
And now you are 80, a wonderful age.
And now we move on to a different stage.
A big Minyan Kiddush, a festive affair.
All kinds of Jewish friends will be there.
I’ll chant the Haftorah, David delivers the D’rash.
And we’ll all enjoy a wonderful nosh.
We’re taking life a day at a time.
Enjoying each day, with no stairs to climb.
Next year will be fun when you turn 81.
And for the White House, Hillary will run.
Bernie’s getting the crowds. I do like the guy.
But if he is not picked, I really won’t cry.
And who in the world will the GOP pick?
Rubio, Trump, Ben Carson, Kasich?
Poor Jeb is in trouble, but he won’t drop out.
Trying to figure what it’s all about.
The eyes of the faithful are getting misty.
Saying goodbye to Rand Paul and Christie.
Back to your birthday, and lots of good wishes
For our David’s mother, and for my Missus.
Wishes for happiness, for joy and for fun.
And peace and prosperity for everyone.
To the love of my life who I really adore:
Happy Birthday dear Fran, and many more.
11-6-15
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HAPPY
It is Rosh Hashanah, and everyone is wishing everyone else “A Happy New Year.” (Actually, all the non-Jews wish their Jewish friends “Happy New Year,” and the more assimilated Jews wish whoever they think is Jewish “Happy New Year.”) When we used to send Jewish New Year cards, they also said Happy New Year along with Shanah Tovah. Which got me to thinking. What do we mean by “happy?” Many people, when they extend the wish, add several other adjectives: healthy, prosperous, peaceful, sweet, meaningful, since they want to say something more than “happy.”
Happy is a simple word. I was surprised that when I looked in the dictionary, the first definition of happy was, “Characterized by good luck; fortunate.” The second definition was, “Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction or joy.” Somehow that isn’t exactly what I mean by happy.
I am happy when everything is going well. When I find delight in my life. When I love and am loved. When I have no personal worries, and am not worrying about family, friends or the state of the world. When I can share in, and enjoy, those other wishes: good health, prosperity, peace, sweetness, and a meaningful life, which is my wish for everyone.
We must have discussed “happiness” in Philosophy 101, but I have forgotten whatever it was we talked about. If I remember, the Greek philosophers raised a lot of important questions, and “what is happiness?” must have been high on the list. I read somewhere that someone who pursues a happy life is a taker. By pursuing a meaningful life, you are a giver. In the overall scheme of things, happy is good; good is better. If you have a year filled with meaning, happiness will follow.
Some years ago, we visited a friend whose son was getting a divorce after many years of marriage. Our friend was very unhappy about the divorce and asked him why he was doing it. He replied he wanted to be happy. She scoffed and thought his answer was ridiculous. “What the hell is happy? You have a nice house, a good job, great kids. So what if you don’t have a picture-book marriage.”
My mother once remarked, in a moment of sadness, that she had only 15 years of happiness in her life: from the time she married in 1916 until my father died in 1931. I suspect she was equating happiness with economic security, with not having to work, and worrying about paying bills. Going through her papers after she died, there were indications that the marriage was not a happy one. In fact, the years from 1910 until her marriage, when she worked as a cloak finisher, was active in her union, learned to read and write, and discovered the Yiddish theatre, struck me as happy years.
The first dictionary definition said that to be happy is characterized by good luck. Is it saying that the lucky person is happy, or the happy person is lucky? I feel very lucky having been born where and when I was born, but it never occurred to me that those circumstances should make me happy. Millions like me run the gamut from deliriously happy to miserably despondent. Some people’s personalities are happy and they look on the bright side, and others are sad, dissatisfied.
I like the story of the two young brothers with such different temperaments. At Christmas, their father gave the unhappy brother a room full of wonderful toys, and the happy sibling a room full of manure. When the unhappy brother opened the door, he began complaining about each toy. When the happy brother opened his door, he was overjoyed. With all this manure, he said, there must be a pony in here.
Moving from the dictionary to the thesaurus, I found a bunch of equivalent words that made me happy: joyful, cheerful, good humored, content, satisfied, glad, light hearted, pleasurable. That was more like it. Most “Happys” are wished on special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and holidays. When I wish someone a happy whatever, I would like them to be joyful, cheerful, etc. Whatever it says above. Including good luck. Happy New Year!
9-20-15
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FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
It is Friday July 31, 2015, and I thought it would be a good idea to find out about funeral arrangements. I am not sure, but I do not think we have made any pre-arrangements with Levine’s, but if we had, I learned that they can be transferred.
I called Levine’s, spoke to Bob Nardone (David Decter was out) and learned that the whole package would run about $8000. Removal, refrigeration, preparation, service, register books, handouts, candles, ribbons, prayer books, thank you’s etc. The plain pine box is $895. Everything is negotiable. What he called third party fees: opening the grave, newspaper notices, permits etc would be another $2500.
I then called Brezniak-Rodman 1251 Washington St. Newton 02465, 617-969-0800, and spoke to George Rodman. He said that the whole package would run about $8,500 but when I told him that we plan to use the community Chevre Kadisha, he said the cost would be reduced by $1275. They no longer perform the service in their chapel. They use Wilson Chapel near Hebrew College. Seems he will get our business.
I read a short piece about pre-planning. It said I should Reflect, (What kind of service do I want?); Record, (after reflecting, write it down); Share, ((let your loved ones and your funeral provider know); and Support, (pay—lock in today’s prices). As soon as I finish reflecting: what kind of readings, whom do I want to speak, who should be pallbearers, who should officiate, I will record, but not today. I guess I will also write an obituary. I may also spare everyone the trouble and think of what I would like on the stone.
It occurred to me that I won’t be put in the ground right away. I want Martha and her gang there, and it will take time to get here from Portland. And David may be in Pittsburgh, and Lewis in Silver Spring and Carol in W. Orange. It will give them time to think of something to say. Perhaps Bob will speak for my gang. Of course, ROL will be there. I already said that I would like Moshe Waldoks to officiate. He can mention JLC and WC and NCM, and Yiddish. He can even say a few words in Yiddish.
Relatives: Bobby and his family; Barbara and her family; Roz and her family. I doubt if any of them will make it. Still, we should get the word out. Fran’s family: a few of them are here: Niki etc, and the others are in Rochester, and Dallas. The notice in the Boston Globe might bring out a few folks who may remember me.
Organizations: The ones I would like Moshe to mention—WC, JLC, NCM.
Local friends: Many of them came out for me when DSA honored me. This gives them a second opportunity. Telling Your Story, Values, Vinkl and Book Group colleagues. (This was written on 7-31-15. It is 1-14-16) We now have the Kantors, and a few more from the Brook House Shirley, Sandy. Others are fading away.
A lot depends on whether Fran will predecease me. We still have to get our will straightened out: The Last Will and Testament. Who gets what. All my papers, and books and records and buttons and pictures and photos. I guess that comes under another category.
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FUNERAL_ARRANGEMENTS
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FRAGMENTS OF A LIFE
Introduction
On November 3rd 1888, in Vaslui, Romania, a baby girl was born. Her parents, Malka and Jacob Goldstein, named her Celia, Tsirl. She had a sister, Surah-Leah and a brother, Melech. The family was poor. Celia was apprenticed to a tailor at the age of five. At 16, she made her way to America, worked in a sweatshop, became active in the union, married, gave birth to a child, became widowed, struggled to raise her child alone, and on March 12, 1951, at the age of 62, she died alone.
Her story is like countless others, but it is unique in many ways. It is my mother’s story, and she wanted desperately to tell it. Unfortunately, when she was growing up in Vaslui Romania, she was not sent to school. She did not learn how to read or write—not Romanian, and not Yiddish or Hebrew. Soon after she arrived in New York, she learned to read Yiddish, but not to write. After her marriage, she went to “night school” and took English classes and struggled to express herself in written English. Her spoken English was very good, and her spoken Yiddish was excellent.
As far back as I can remember, my mother wanted to “tell her story.” She wrote snippets describing her feelings, bits of verse, commentary on the world around her. When I was a teen-ager, she asked me to sit with her and she would dictate her “story.” This only happened once. The year before she died, after learning that there were recording machines, she instructed me to buy one for her. My mother was thrilled to have something that could record her voice and to whom she could tell her story. She named the recording machine “Malke” her mother’s name, and to my mother, sitting with her wire recorder, was as if she was having a conversation with her mother. Mothers listen to their children. Tragically, it is seldom the other way around. And tragically, I have been unable to decipher most of the recordings.
Nevertheless, taking all the remnants—my mother’s papers, photographs, letters, documents—and my memories, here is her story.
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FORGETTING
When I began to write my “memoirs” I concentrated on my earliest years. Then, I shifted to telling my mother’s story. After several years of dredging up history, I shifted to observations of the world around me, and descriptions of my aging process.
As I thought about this transition, I realized that I was actually forgetting large pieces of my story. Facts that I had at my fingertips were no longer within reach. And there was another phenomenon: Recent events and experiences, recent films that I have seen, and books that I have read, faded from my memory within weeks.
Something is happening to my brain. I suspect it is the same thing that is happening to the brain of a lot of older people. Most of us have commented on it. A few of us fear that it is early Alzheimers. Things that were never a problem to remember, are being forgotten. Names, dates, where you put things. Even what you call things.
I started writing this, I named it Forgetting, I put it on the desktop of my computer, and then, closed the computer. When I wanted to go back to it, I forgot that I called it Forgetting. (end of 2014)
I just opened it up, and was surprised by what I found. I had no memory of having written this. Still, when I saw Dr. Taylor a few weeks ago, March 2015, he said I am doing better than 95% of people my age.
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