Poetry Monday: Howard Faerstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOWARD FAERSTEIN

Good morning, everyone – and Happy Spring at last, wherever you are (not only you, but actual spring, which we are barely seeing, here in the Northeastern U.S.,where we’ve almost forgotten what the sun looks or feels like.  But the leaves are out, some of the flowers are, too, and the last scraps of snow are gone.

Soon it will be Mother’s Day, and I hope you’ll think of poetry then, in your wishes for whichever her or hers you’re honoring.

I didn’t know until recently that I did indeed know Howie Faerstein and his fine poetry and didn’t remember that we had met years ago.  But now I do know and am glad, not only to make his acquaintance once again but to share his poems with you.

Howie Faerstein’s first book of poetry, which I highly recommend, was Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn (Press 53, 2013).  This was followed a few Continue reading Poetry Monday: Howard Faerstein

My Child is Addicted to Her Phone: The Smart Phone in Childhood and Adolescence with Sarah Fox at NYPSI

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Division:  Dialogues On… Series with Leading Child Development Experts: My Child is Addicted to Her Phone: The Smart Phone in Childhood and Adolescence with Sarah Fox, M.D.May 8, 2019 | 8:00 – 9:30 pm

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
No charge. Register HERE, visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900 
Dr. Fox will present current psychological thinking about use of smart phones and their content.  The smart phone is only 12 years old, yet it has revolutionized the experience of childhood.  The impact of use of these
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Risk of obesity can be accurately predicted in babies, study finds

Click Here to Read: Risk of obesity can be accurately predicted in babies, study finds: Factors including birth weight could determine likelihood of child becoming obese aged 10 by Sarah Boseley on the Guardian website on May 1, 2019.

A baby having milk from a bottle.  Photo:  Michael Jastremski. Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Rememberance Day


 

 

 

 

 

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Photo: Stroop Report.  Photographer Unknown.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons   

“This was the end. This was the sum total of hundreds of generations of building, of Torah, of piety, of freethinking, of Zionism, of Bundism, of struggles and of battles, of the hopes of an entire people – this empty desert I looked around me at what had been the Jews of Warsaw. I felt one hope, and I feel it now. May this sea of emptiness bubble and boil, may it cry out eternal condemnation of the murderers and pilagers, may it be forever the shame of the civilized world which saw and heard and chose to remain silent”

B Goldstein (2005). Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: the stars bear witness
Oakland CA AK Press

Click here to Read: Richards, A (2012). Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture. Holes in the Doorposts in  The Power of Witnessing edited by N Goodman and M Meyers. Routledge New York
London,

Click Here for the Website for The Power of Witnessing

Click Here to Read:  The Holocaust’s long reach: Trauma is passed on to survivors’ children by Ian Brown in The Globe and Mail on April 3, 2015