Recollections of a Cherubic Brooklyn Boy



Recollections of a Cherubic Brooklyn Boy
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 6, 2023

As a cherubic boy in Brooklyn of old
With buddies I’d frolic ’til night fell
No need for playdates planned weeks in advance
And what joyous tales we’d all tell
An old wooden box was a treasure indeed
Into a scooter it morphed like magic!
If we couldn’t find old skates for the wheels
How horribly, horrifically tragic!
Our brain cells were taxed to creatively think
No computers to figure it out!
And when we came up with a new game to play
How each child would vociferously shout!
Fun came so easily from simple delights
Like running and jumping for joy
Our parents back then in Brooklyn of old
Couldn’t afford an extravagant toy
So create we did and our brain cells did grow
We grew confident, creative and bold
It prepared us for life, for kindness and caring
And if truth be truthfully told
It taught us a lesson about life well lived
No money nor technology needed
We learned that good friends sharing joy each day
Brings a future that’s very well seeded
To this very day simple joys in life
I will celebrate and honor with pride
And never forget when that cherubic young boy
Had one helluva joy-filled ride!

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The joys of a non-technology filled childhood.

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Written on July 06, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 06, 2023

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Scheme AXX BCXCXDXDXEFEXABAXBXBXGFGXHAH
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,204
Words 225
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 28

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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