Well Grounded From Back in the Day



Well Grounded From Back in the Day ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 7, 2023

A Mahjong game gathering
At our Brooklyn home tonight
Brings Blackout Cake remnants
For a chubby boy’s delight!
Our daily sanctuary
The streets we’d all embrace
We never feared what dangers lurked
In that warm and loving space
Second generation parents
Just struggling to survive
Never sharing stress with children
For tranquility they would always strive
Each day a new adventure
Possibilities supreme
Our parents greatest joy in life
Was to see their children dream
Dream of better days ahead
Lives devoid of doubt
But grounded profoundly in self-esteem
“I know that I can do it!!” We’d always proudly shout
Those halcyon days, Brooklyn childhood days
I carry in my vintage soul
They help me to know that survive I can
Memories help to make you feel whole
Well seasoned in life I joyously remain
Perambulating my time away
Still wondering, rejoicing and creating
Happy to awake another day
Always recalling and blessing the roots of my life
When foundations were firmly laid
This well worn soul can proudly extol
A life still so proudly well played

About this poem

What we learned in childhood, if the quality was there, keeps us grounded in life.

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Written on July 07, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 07, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,147
Words 209
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 32

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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