tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41515287424702806172024-03-13T14:52:49.238-07:00NOBODY'S CHILD Can you forgive if you can't forget? Behind the iron curtain a mother tries to abort a baby that clings to life. After two bloody attempts a girl in born into a life of damage and despair.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-32166885334246878932015-11-03T21:13:00.000-08:002015-11-03T21:13:06.464-08:00Dying Father
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I see the shadow of death </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">dim the light in his
eyes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hear the hiss </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on his lips, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the gasp </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in his voice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I see it all, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but I
pretend not to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and keep going on. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Father is wilting away </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and I cannot stop it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can only slow it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with love. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I take him out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to eat and to see the city, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the
places he used to tow me along </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">when I was small. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He made me hold his
pinky </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or the handle of his briefcase.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now he
holds my thumb</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the belt of my backpack </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and leans on me for balance.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-30490070472559488442015-10-17T09:29:00.002-07:002015-10-17T09:30:55.845-07:00In Prag de Toamna<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;">În prag de toamnă se îmbracă cerul</span><br />
<pre style="line-height: 14px; padding: 0px;"><tt style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cu irizări, din visele uitate
Culorile vor întregi misterul
Trăirilor, prin chip, nevinovate
Cad frunzele pe lezpezi de tăcere
Şi-n drumul lor recheamă infinitul
Rămân apoi de stană, fără vrere,
Când “amintirea”-şi caută iubitul
Ades sub razele ce îşi măsoară
Trecutul, calculat în ani lumină,
Răsună în neştire o vioară-
Tremolul ei apune în surdină
Aleargă-n toamnă frunzele pierdute
De gânduri şi visări la lungi popasuri
La poarta depărtării nevăzute
Sporovăiesc chemările de glasuri
Nici nu mai ştiu ce anotimp mă ţine
Să dau trăirilor şi foc şi viaţă
A renăscut armata de ondine
Speranţele au revenit din ceaţă
La ceas de toamnă negurile nasc
Iubirile ce-adună depărtarea
Cu un poem, nesocotit de teasc,
Ce survolează muntele şi marea
Din versurile-adesea lecturate
Ghiceşti chemări ce-şi caută ecou
Dorinţele firesti, fără păcate
Sunt exprimate tainic în argou
Virgil Ciuca
New York
12 octombrie 2015</span></tt></pre>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-12160139373584902982015-01-18T12:26:00.000-08:002015-01-18T12:27:07.858-08:00Useless UFTUseless UFT <a href="http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/3/janos_2015_01_16_q.html" target="_blank">http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/3/janos_2015_01_16_q.html</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-21642843033353081572015-01-05T01:50:00.001-08:002015-01-05T01:59:33.999-08:00Oble-men-co<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I find a part time job on a construction
site and I rent a small paneled room past the wilderness of Giulesti. The ranch
style cottage where I rent hides in the shadow close to a long stone path. Scooped
under a wide oak my room borders the sidewalk near the gate. The owner of the
house, Mrs. Codin, a retired university professor in her 50s, has a daughter
studying at a university away from home and a handsome son, Dan, about to
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And
Dan says he loves me... His mother watches like a hawk, as he gently pursues me
with promenades, poetry and platonic romance. One late Friday night we go for a
long stroll. It’s a moonless night with the anemic city lights flinging
phantoms on walls and fences. We hold hands and slalom the neighborhood spying for
ghosts talking and laughing, hours fly by. While walking back home we decide to
do it again tomorrow night. Back in the yard, Dan stops me from opening my
door. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “It
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room, adjacent to his mother. Holding hands and panting with anxiety, we
carefully tiptoe through a common foyer and onto the soft, Persian rug of his
spacious bedroom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Sandals
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small porcelain lamp. A warm light falls on a queen size bed covered with
spotless, perfectly ironed Dutch linen. While I survey a black upright piano
and a wall full of books, Dan pulls the heavy drapes, opens a window into the
dark night and drops down next to me on the rug. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> We
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bites mine. I unbutton his shirt, and he stretches out of his pants. We roll on
the rug and he pulls me on top. I resist. He gives up and lies on his back next
to me. I caress his perfect skin. My hands run light circles on his chest,
stomach, lower, lower still. He grips my hand, holds it tenderly then moves it
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Dawn
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “I
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “Okay,”
Dan agrees. We kiss and hug. I jump out the window and across the stone path I
slip into my dark, taciturn room. Awake and pensive I lay on me bed unable to
stop thinking about the previous night. Clouded thoughts and feelings focus on
Dan—admiration, physical attraction and respect mixed with an overall sense of
peace and wellbeing when he’s around. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Is
this love? Something’s missing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Late in the afternoon, I hear a soft
knock. I snap the door open, and find myself facing Dan and his best friend
Traian, better known as “the medusa.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Dan
has many friends all over the city but his best buddy is also a neighbor who
lives a few houses down the same quaint alley. They grew up in the same
neighborhood went to the same elementary and that’s where the commonalities
end. Traian is from a struggling family. He’s not a high school honor student;
he’s an average Joe attending vocational school. He plays no piano, reads little
and never goes to the theatre. Traian is a leech with an unstable character and
emotional state. I do not like him. He is a thug and aware of my feelings he
takes revenge every chance he gets. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Before
I say come in, he insolently walks past me and makes himself at home. Dan
follows and they both sit on my bed. Dan draws me close to his side while a
wicked smirk grows on Traian’s face. Our conversation slides to a stop with the
three of us lying on our backs, feet planted on the floor, eyes focused up on
the paneled ceiling. I am in the middle, holding Dan’s head on my chest, while
Traian dozes off on my left. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Dusk
arrives early. It hangs on the curtains over two small windows peeking on the
red sky. No one talks, the three of us stuck in a state of hypnagogia––not
asleep and not awake, shrouded in the peace of a dense night. When black
conquers all, I watch Dan and Traian shrink away in the flaky moonlight, while
across the path a curtain topples over a tall shadow.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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and her prominent stature gulps up the space in my tiny room. Her eyes inspect
the room, blatantly violating my frail sense of privacy. As if understanding my
feelings, she blinks and asks permission to sit on my bed. I sit next to her. A
black mourning dress, her husband passed away not long ago, covers her
snow-white skin and tall heavy body. She doesn’t get much sunlight. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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irises for answers and confessions. Under her fine, high tipped nose, her small
lips move, but I don’t hear distracted by her body language it warns that this won't be a friendly chat. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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room and hours later sweaty and guilty melt away the night sweaty and guilty. Guilty?
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a tight clasp. On the bed, our clothes on, he holds me gently and the vexing
game begins again; my trembling hands caressing his chest, abs, over the belly
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Now
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two
years before selling the house Father made his last will and testament leaving
his estate to Mark the grandson he helped raise from birth. Now that he stands
to lose it all Father’s pain is impossible to bear, even for his young grandson
and the fact that we must soon return to New York doesn’t make it any easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Father hired a lawyer to help
him fight his real estate crusade. The lawyer found loopholes in the legality
of selling and buying the house and he's collecting evidence to build his case.
We leave the amount necessary to cover Father’s expenses and drive back to
Serbia where in three days we must board the plane from Belgrade to New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Weeks later, Father whizzes
his pain through the phone lines. He cries and cusses about being thrown out of
his house and living on the street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One afternoon the police
knocked on his door the gypsies stepping in their shadow. One officer tells
Father to pack his belongings, while another officer carries and piles the
stuff on the dirt path outside the fence. Later a kind neighbor allows him
shelter in her house and stores his possessions in her shed. Three doors down
in his house the gypsies gather singers, live brass bands and all. Loud music blows
the night into shards of sheer madness while the neighbors brace themselves,
for a bleak future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then it quiets, and it stays
that way for days. No movement comes from and about the old house; except for
Father prowling along the fence in the dull dusk light stretching his neck and
glancing over it. Past the twilight, a death-clasping scream pierced the air
and traveled the hoary yards. More voices thumped up and down the hardened
path. Then over the tumult the ambulance and police sirens yelled up the hill,
tugging neighbors from their beds and onto the narrow lane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“What happened? What’s going
on?” hung on everyone’s lips. A neighbor ran between Father’s old gate and a clump
of curious heads clamored by the main road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“They found a dead gypsy in
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The news outflowed like
broken dam waters, and neighbors whispered how Father now was nowhere in sight.
From the shadows the crowd stretched a collective neck to spy the covered
gurney wheeled into the ambulance. The vehicle proceeded quietly downhill
followed by loud wailing gypsies on foot. </span><span style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their swindle bashed in
terror when the wife came home to find her husband on a chair at the living
room table his head rested on his hands crossed near empty bottles and glasses.
From afar she thought he was drunk asleep, but as she got closer, she saw the
back of his head carved open and white spongy mass scattered over his arms and the
dingy table. She screamed into her phone for help and kept vigil by the side of
his chair. She held and kissed his cold face and stared into his open terror
sealed eyes. She blew warm air into his blood-splotched hands and hugged him
tightly to transfer life into his rigor mortis slouched body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wailing in pain, the young wife
ran down the slanted yard yelling gypsy meddled words pulling her hair and
tossing it in the wind. She tore at her clothes dancing circles she
rhythmically bent to daub dirt on her head. Cried and sang and tapping her feet
to raise dust on the same spot, a gypsy ritual to strew the bad spirits. Bawling
out of breath her mother and sister ran up the knoll and joined in her twirl
while neighbors crossed themselves trapped at a sinister parade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More police cars screeched up
Eternitate Street, blocking roads and slowing traffic to halt. Plainclothes
investigators and uniformed cops strolled in and about the house, literally
turning and collecting rocks of evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="webkit-fake-url://EC079CE2-1CF8-4406-8CD5-610B4DE4D0C9/application.pdf" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="webkit-fake-url://EC079CE2-1CF8-4406-8CD5-610B4DE4D0C9/application.pdf" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 13.7pt;" width="266" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The gypsies chorally howled
that the old man killed the new owner. He threatened him more than once, and
always in the same words:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Asa batrin cum sunt iau o
piatra si-ti crap capu ca pe-o nuca.” or “Nu voi muri pana nu-ti sparg capu
sa-ti vad creieri.” “As old as I am, I’ll break your head open like a pumpkin!”
or “I won’t die until I bash your head and spill your brains out!” Dumitru got
what he wanted neighbors whisper, now the gypsies would never live in his evil
cursed house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two uniformed cops stopped
and asked a lingering group if they knew where Father was. The men shrugged but
one frail old lady pointed toward the yard he’s been calling home lately. The
officers turned to the gate. Voices lowered to whispers and all eyes followed
the tip of their hats shrinking into the courtyard. They heard the knock on the
main door and the landlady pointing them to Father’s door. Another knock and
the officers let themselves in. There, in a tight and flashy decorated room,
face up on a low single bed Father was sound asleep with the evening newspaper
and his eyeglasses resting on his chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Domnu Dumitru [Mister
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and tired from his flailing his arms to sit. “What happened?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Didn’t you hear the
ambulance sirens blasting up the hill a while ago?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“No, I’m hard of hearing. But
if the ambulance came I hope they’re all dead, and the world is finally rid of
their kind,” he bellowed while the officers glanced at each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Well, strange you say that,
Mr. Dumitru, because that is exactly what happened.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Are they all dead?” Father’s
eyes blazed over the opaque cataract coat. “It really happened?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“That’s what we want to find
out. We know that the gypsies celebrated the buying of their new house with
live music, and loud guests we also know that you were spying into your old
yard about the time everything got quiet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hunched in the doorway one
officer asked Father to get ready and come to the station for an interview
(interrogation). Both officers helped him walk and into the squad car parked on
the main road. Neighbors watched them take him away some shouted encouraging
words while the deceased’s family bellowed and swore on his guilt and their
revenge. At the station, Father got ushered into a tight room and asked to sit
across the table from a middle-aged officer. The “interview” began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Domnu Dumitru, de ce ati
spionat prin curtea tiganilor Luni seara?” “Mr. Dumitru, why were you poking into
the gypsy yard on Monday afternoon?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Eu n-am spionat! Lumea minte
si fura. Dar sper sa crape toti tiganii asta sper!” “I was not spying! They’re
lying to you. People lie and steal. But I hope that all these gypsies die!”
Father shrieked. His hands fumbled on his cap pushing it high on his forehead.
From his chair, the officer stared at red bloody scabs on Father’s temple,
partially hidden by his cap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Remove your cap,” the
investigator demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“What?” Father’s puzzled face
threw the man into a fit. He reached over and slapped the cap off uncovering a
scalp red with old and fresh scratches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Explain these scratches on
your head,” the investigator ordered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I’m a diseased old man who
got swindled by the scum of the society,” Father cried. “Police came not to
help me but to toss the things I worked for all my life onto the muddy path.
Irreplaceable items were stolen from me and I reported it to you but got no
attention. I’m an old man, who needs me? They stole my life, but no one
investigated how they crept into my house, how they got me drunk a man my age, and
how the deed changed names, in the hands of a corrupt notary public. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I’m sorry to hear about
that, but it’s not what we’re investigating right now. You are here because a
man was found dead, and you were edging the fence on the day his head was
wacked open. Why? What were you doing? Why were you peering inside the yard inside
the house?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I had more stuff in there,
and they would not let me take it. I wanted to see if anyone was home. I know
other ways to get in that house; I designed them myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“What ways?” Red flags waved
up and the investigator offered Father, a cigarette. They both lit up and Father
went on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“One entry is on a north wall
of the house shared by the old stable, it’s a narrow opening that I covered
with planks and a hinged set of tall shelves, it opens into the pantry’s fake
wall at the back of my winter kitchen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Is that the entry you used
to kill the young gypsy?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Father takes a last puff and
mutters,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I thought about it many
times.. but I did not kill anyone, I’m too old, too weak.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“What are the other secret
entries, and which one did you use?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Oh, shame on me, and my
life. Yes, I would have killed him and his entire kind, but I didn’t. I’m too
sick and out of breath a dead man myself ah, if I was only a few years
younger!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“What other secret entries
are there?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“From Mrs. Popescu’s
backyard, there’s a square hole blocked by wooden boxes on the outside and a
book shelf on the inside. This opening is the size of a 6 or 7 year-old-child,
the same size as my grandson.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Is this the entrance you
used? The young man was killed close to this spot he was sitting at the table
located next to the bed. Someone snuck up behind him and hit him on the back of
the head with a blunt object, possibly a rock.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ignoring the interruption,
Father continued with a sigh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“No, I did not use any of
these openings, and I did not kill this scum. I am too old for that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There was no case the police
could build against Father in the death of the young gypsy, or the beatings
that followed. Two more people were discovered stabbed and barely alive on the
old property for reasons not spewing from beyond the grave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The neighborhood never
recovered from the tragedies and ghouls howling the old house behind its high
fence. Father’s house turned haunted, and “cursed” with spirits grappling for
eternal peace. No gypsy family ever moved in, instead it shelters shady
transitional characters slipping in and out the gate taking doom to darker
nadirs. The old neighbors left to face the everyday mayhem; the stealing and
destroying of properties the never-ending fights between lawless hoards of
gypsies thumping over the two faced mound. Things disappear from yards, sheds
and houses. Brash, insolent parties break the silence each night. Illicit
activities assault the area while neighbors complain and suffer unable to leave
this blighted part of Iasi. But unlike Father, the old gray blood smeared house
still stands even if ashamed and guilty.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grandmother
Ecaterina’s house stands at the top of a discordant double-faced hillock. One
face on the cleanly paved and quaint Eternitate Street where decent homes slant
below the church, the other side a slippery slope where gypsies, filth and
shacks spill onto a dirt road. From a well-to-do family Ecaterina, could have
done better for herself but at 17, she eloped
and lost herself in the love for her man and their six progenies. Her father
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companions; cats in her shed, dogs in the front yard and chickens in coops behind
the house. She is still the force that keeps the family together they all seek and abide her ruling and share in her love. Their daily mission is for a family
member to come up the hill and check on her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and minutes later she follows Ecaterina’s raspy voice out into the breeze where she’s sweeping
the yard. They chat for a while and after her granddaughter leaves Ecaterina
realizes that her pension check had vanished from its usual spot. Aggravated,
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morning she’s up with the first rooster crow, to prepare for a turbulent
day. In front of a full basin of water
she stands, soap and comb ready when the phone rings and a bomb is dropped—her
granddaughter cashed her check. “But she must not worry, the amount would be
returned soon.” Tears stream down her chin and over the basin as she bends to
wash her red sweaty face. Her body gives way. Face fist she dives into the
mini-pool and thuds unconscious on the floor. Late that afternoon another granddaughter
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spot on her granddaughter’s soul. After she’s laid to rest Father renovates the
old house. He builds a new room facing
the old garden, erects a new fence and encloses the front porch to keep the
house warm. The neighborhood has never been safe, and in his old age he wants
to feel protected, so locks and keys weight heavy on his doors and in his
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Liliana<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">At the age of 60, Father finds his
soul mate and adventure partner in 30-year-old Liliana. He finds himself ostracized
by siblings, and the world alike. “You’re a dirty old man and she’s a gold
digger from the dark side of life,” they all chimed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">And he might be a “dirty old man” for
the entire world but Liliana keeps coming, and Father would rather be repudiated
by all, than be without her. From a very poor background, Liliana knows
struggles; she’s been through many hot burning hells of her own. Her mother
died /giving birth to her. To escape an abusive, alcoholic Father, she eloped
at 14 and a year later gave birth to her first baby, a seemingly healthy baby
boy. Her husband, a railroad man, worked hard, drank even harder, and brought
home no bacon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">At 19, Liliana buries her son when he
unexpectedly dies in her arms, then ends her marriage. The second time she marries
an army officer and gives birth to her second child, again a boy. Her new
husband provides for her and their child but his demanding job leaves Liliana
lonely. When her second son dies at the age of 3, destitute and depressed, she
finds solace with the wrong crowd. She begins to drink, and by the age of 26,
she’s bitter and “cursed,” twice divorced and with two children dead in her hug.
She has no education, and to survive, she cleans houses Father employs her to help
around the newly renovated old house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Sad story, Liliana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Dark complexion and bright smile,
she’s charismatic, curvy, and petite; she laughs easy and starts a fight even
easier. She rejuvenates Father. Cleaning his house and yard, she glues to his
soul. They become intimate and business partners. As peddlers, they travel to
Turkey, Poland, Russia, and China, turning into a profitable team. She acquires
her own apartment and saves to open a small newspaper stand. When Father’s in
New York, Liliana cares for his property, and keeps everything in order. Father
has traveled between New York and Iasi for years. He likes America but loves
Romania and would not want to die or be laid to rest anywhere but the <i>Eternitate</i> “Eternity” graveyard in Iasi
alongside his parents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">One fall, Father entrusts Liliana with
the key to his house and the stable-turned-wine cellar. A dark square room with
steady-temperature where tarmac sealed bottles and a 200-liter wood barrel of
red Merlot are stored for aging. Father invests great amounts of money, organic
ingredients, pride and patience in old recipes of his Merlot. Every fall, he
travels to <i>vinifera </i>the vineyards on
the suburbs of Iasi<i> </i>to buy Concord,
Muscat and Hamburg; for making his wine. To leave Liliana in charge of his Bacchus
wealth means total trust or blind love and Father does not trust anyone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the morning, the house phone rings. I pick up and an unknown voice asks for
Dumitru. I must repeat it to Father for he’s hard of hearing. Startle-eyed, he
flings his arms in the air, moans, and gets up in slow motion. I hand him the
phone, and I’m about to go back to bed when I hear him grunt and gag in lament
and tears. Alarmed, I sit next to him until he hangs up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a murit</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">. “Liliana died! She’s
dead, she’s dead!” No. She was only 40 years old.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">“What happened?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Father cannot speak. He whimpers and splutters,
pain suffocating him. The next evening at JFK airport, my heart follows his
frail silhouette until feeble and disoriented it vanishes through customs. Two
days later, I call, his voice sorrow–satiated, sounds gruffer than ever, and I
can just picture him lighting up a chain of cigarettes, gulping mugs of black
coffee, and forgetting to eat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Story has it that Liliana celebrated
her 40<sup>th</sup> birthday in Father’s house she invited friends and
neighbors. Red wine is poured from Father’s drums until the night hours turned
small and Liliana was having a ball. Loud and bubbly, she cheered with every
sip of aroma packed Merlot. She nipped and puffed often, through two packs of
Marlboro. As she’s about to entertain the guests with a funny tale, she starts
speaking then suddenly falls off her chair and thuds to the floor. The hollers
shake the windowpanes and Liliana’s still on the floor, her guests continue to
laugh as if her fall is part of an amusing act but minutes later they clamor
over her unresponsive body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: large;">Someone calls an ambulance. Paramedics
arrive after the guests help themselves to Father’s belongings. They pronounce
her dead on the scene, and her body is transported to the city morgue. The
autopsy revealed that Liliana’s 40 years were a miracle, for she suffered from
congenital heart disease—the same disease that killed her two sons before the
age of 5. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;">Father buries her in the same casket with
his heart, and three months later only his shadow arrives back at JFK. I’m
shocked at how much weight he’s lost and at the sorrow carved deep into his
hollow eyes. Father never recovered from this loss. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-34817800831685782492014-08-17T03:59:00.001-07:002014-08-17T03:59:49.311-07:00Nobody's Child Romanian Review of Carti Nemuritoare<a href="http://cartinemuritoare.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/recenzie-nobodys-child-lisa-pecainowbadys-child/">http://cartinemuritoare.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/recenzie-nobodys-child-lisa-pecainowbadys-child/</a><br />
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Recenzie: Nobody’s child – Lisa PECAI</h1>
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Nobody’s child – Lisa PECAI</div>
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O poveste despre prietenie, despre iubire, despre feminitate și feminism, despre condiția artistului în lume, despre bărbați și despre femei, despre rătăcirile secolului XX și despre puterea de a te ridica și a o lua de la capăt.</div>
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Bine scrisă, cu atenție deosebită în redarea detaliilor și în descrierea atmosferei,<span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ‘</strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nobody’s child’</strong></span> este povestea Lisei, un copil “nedorit”, care se confruntă cu greutățile vieții încă de la o vârstă foarte fragedă.</div>
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Rememorarea copilăriei, în care își fac loc atâtea traume și atâta cruzime, precum și alte detalii legate de viața din Romania, în general, constituie realitatea, o realitate ”dură”; însă pe tot parcursul cărții am avut impresia că Lisa plutește oarecum în afara evenimentelor ca un martor care încearcă să înțeleagă ce s-a întâmplat.</div>
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Cred că cel mai important aspect al romanului este, de fapt, chiar mesajul pe care-l transmite, anume: indiferent de greutățile de care ne lovim, să găsim puterea să ne ridicăm și să mergem mai departe cu capul sus.</div>
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Alte teme abordate de autoare sunt lupta pentru individualitate, pentru nevoia de a fi altfel, nevoia de afirmare, nevoia de a ști că ești cineva.</div>
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Povestea trece de la un moment la altul, de la copilărie până la maturitate, marcând scenele importante din viata Lisei.</div>
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Fiind un copil nedorit, Lisa a simțit tăișurile ascuțite ale nepăsării pe pielea ei firavă de copil. Acestea au lăsat răni adânci pe care viața le bandajează în timp, dar cicatricele rămân. Ea a îndurat multe suferințe, dar acestea nu au distrus-o ci au făcut-o mai puternică. La vârsta de zece ani, mama sa a alungat-o pur și simplu de acasă. În scurt timp Lisa ajunge în America, unde învață să se ridice prin propriile forțe și învață ce înseamnă dragostea.</div>
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‘Nobody’s child’ este o poveste emoționantă, o poveste adevărată de viață și despre viața, o lecție pe care autoarea a învățat-o pe pielea ei și pe care a decis să o transmită mai departe.</div>
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Apreciez autoarea pentru decizia ei de a scrie acestă carte. De când am citit-o, m-am întrebat oare, dacă este ușor să scri despre viața ta. Sunt lucruri care s-au întâmplat, lucruri pe care ști să le povestești, în concluzie, cuvintele ar trebui să curgă și paginile să se complecteze ușor. Dar, m-am gândit și, cred că nu este ușor. Să scri ceva fictiv, în cazul unei drame, îi poți atribui unui personaj suferința pe care el nu a trăit-o, îl poți vindeca sau nu, îl poți modela după bunul plac. În cazul de față, cred ca este mai greu să scri ceva realist, și mai ales când provine din viața ta. Fiecare pagină scrisă te încărca cu emoția amintirilor, unele frumoase, altele mai puțin frumoase. Mă gândesc la faptul că, pe Lisa PeCai au încercat-o sentimente grele atunci când a dat frâu liber poveștii ei, de aceea o apreciez ca om dar și ca autoare.</div>
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‘Nobody’s Child’ este o carte grea, și nu ma refer la modul de lecturare, pentru că ea se citește ușor și repede, ci din punctul de vedere al emoțiilor care te încearcă atunci când o citești. Aceasta transmite mesaje importante despre viață și o recomand tuturor celor care vor să citească ceva serios.</div>
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‘Nobody’s child’ de <span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lisa PECAI</strong></span> a fost publicată la Millennial Mind Publishing – America</div>
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Over a year ago I FOILed the number of probationary (nontenured) teachers discontinued in the NYC DOE in the last two years. I know, I could have just asked the UFT, but they wouldn’t give us the info. In fact, when I asked for the number of reassigned teachers, UFT Staff Director Leroy Barr wrote back ”</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As the number is constantly changing and the DOE controls who is reassigned, I recommend you submit a FOIL request to the DOE for this information</em>.”</div>
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In other words since babies are constantly being born and people are dying every day, you can never get a real population count. Right?</div>
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In any case I finally received the answer.</div>
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Yes. In just 2 years, in NYC DOE alone, 456 teachers have not made it past three years and been discontinued. Some in just their first year. Discontinued does sound better than terminated, but in fact all those, and over a 100 more since then, have been terminated and barred from teaching in the DOE again. Carmen’s DOE continues with this method.</div>
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There! Are you happy now Sam Pirozzolo, <a href="http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2014/07/dissecting-moaning-mona-davids.html" style="border: 0px; color: #bf4d28; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mona Davids</a>, Campbell Brown, David Welch and the rest? According to the demographics of those teachers that contact us at MORE, DTOE and my attorney Bryan Glass, Esq. they are mostly young females.</div>
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Young females who wanted to teach and help children since they were little girls. Teachers like <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Lydia+Howrilka&oq=Lydia+Howrilka&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8" style="border: 0px; color: #bf4d28; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lydia Howrilka</a> who dared ask her former Principal <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Arisleyda+Urena&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS444US444&oq=Arisleyda+Urena&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8#ie=UTF-8&pws=0&q=Arisleyda+Urena&sourceid=chrome" style="border: 0px; color: #bf4d28; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arisleyda Urena</a> for state mandated mentoring to improve her teaching and was then terminated and later falsely arrested and detained for 14 hours.</div>
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Young females like this guidance counselor who was ordered to do everything but counsel students. When she dared tell <a href="https://touch.www.linkedin.com/?sessionid=3897043711950848&as=false&can=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.linkedin.com%252Fpub%252Fadonna-mcfarland%252F19%252Faa1%252F2&rs=false#public-profile/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpub%2Fadonna-mcfarland%2F19%2Faa1%2F2" style="border: 0px; color: #bf4d28; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principal Adonna McFarland</a> that students aren’t getting services she too was terminated. <a href="http://dtoe.org/2014/04/25/carmens-doe-takes-another-young-career/" style="border: 0px; color: #bf4d28; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://dtoe.org/2014/04/25/carmens-doe-takes-another-young-career/</a></div>
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Young females like this one who wrote:</div>
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“<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My observations were conducted on the following dates: </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1522438544" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 13</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1522438545" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 15</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1522438546" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 16</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1522438547" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 19 and May 20</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, plus one conducted on </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1522438548" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 30</span></span></em><span style="border: 0px; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. I only received 3 feedbacks for all 13 observations. At the Summative Conference on June 16 I was handed a rating of Ineffective even though my students showed steady growth according to the Benchmark Assessment, Periodic Assessment and MOSL, plus I have a Valedictorian, new ESL student and one Salutatorian also an ESL student.</em>” More on this story later.</span></div>
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OK, we get males contacting us too, but you get our drift. Where is the UFT? Surely you don’t see any of these stories in the NY Teacher. Instead you read Happy Happy stories of the “New Tone” at the DOE and pictures like this:</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-45584460500987048192014-07-14T13:26:00.002-07:002014-07-14T13:40:14.036-07:00Communism Déjà Vu<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I started teaching ESL in I.S. 291 in 2007 and in 2010 I was granted tenure by the now deceased principal Sean J. Walsh. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tenure was in CB which I haven't taught a single day in this school. Then in 2011 I was excessed on the CB license. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On June 6, 2014 my IAP handed me five, yes 5 observations to sign and date, then on June 9, 2014 another AP gave me one more observation to sign.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These observations were conducted on the following dates: May 13, May 15, May 16, May 22 and May 29 plus one conducted on March 30, I only received 3 emails for feedback. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the Summative Conference on June 16, 2014 I was handed a rating of Ineffective even though my students showed steady growth according to the Benchmark Assessment, Periodic Assessments, NYCESLAT and MOSL. Also I am the proud teacher of a Valedictorian, a first year ESL student, and a Salutatorian. “Ineffective,” eh?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On June 19, I filed a grievance with my union Representative. Copies of all documents were submitted and I was advised to wait for an answer from the Principal. She was to speak to the Superintendent and ask advice about my rating since it was all “in the system.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"This is to inform you that on July 28, 2014, I will review and consider whether your services as a probationer be discontinued as of the close of business July 28, 2014. My consideration of your discontinuance is based on the reasons <span style="line-height: 1.22em;"><u style="line-height: 1.22em;">included in attached documentation </u></span>and such documents constitute a written statement of the reasons for my consideration of your discontinuance. You may submit a written response to the reasons no later than seven (7) days prior to the date of my consideration and final determinance of your Discontinuance." end of quote.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-25639204885142089922014-05-14T23:09:00.001-07:002014-05-14T23:09:20.172-07:00Chelsea Hotel No 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A summer like no other, as a bunch of nomads sailed the Danube Delta to Sulina on the Black Sea. At </span><span style="font-size: large;">Horse's Head near Donji Milanovac </span><span style="font-size: large;">my giggly sister, the pirate on a jet ski, makes waves around our pontoon. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-71631110931655664152014-04-27T07:58:00.001-07:002014-04-27T07:58:07.291-07:00Maybe I'm a Different Breed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Cry for help.. Are we listening?</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-41219269782204636312014-04-27T07:40:00.000-07:002014-04-27T07:41:43.187-07:00Traim Acest Adevar<br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Judecata tăcerii</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Filozofează poeţii în tăcere</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">De ani buni cuvintele şi-au pierdut sensul</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Marea speranţă se consumă-n durere</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Pentru cei mullţi a dispărut universul</span></i></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Intelectualii, şi masele-s mute</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Nu mai ţipă căci şi pedepsele-s crunte</span></i></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Tăcerea bolnavă izbucneşte-n lozinci</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Deseori, slăbiciunea fiiniţe umane</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">La comanda celor cu multe galoane!</span></i></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.22em;">Pentru muţii deveniţi acum guralivi</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moans and laments, cries; "stay, don't go, don't leave me." Love lament, heartache, arrhythmia and more lament "come back, love me." The notes fall used and tired, begging quietly then forcefully as the last accord, hums "come to me."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473208853999058746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4151528742470280617.post-27597406874817027212014-04-14T16:59:00.002-07:002014-05-10T03:19:02.165-07:00Awareness a Must<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">John H. Sklare, Ed.DPublished December 09, 2005</span><br style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">It’s your underlying belief systems that shape your thoughts which, in turn, direct your awareness. And there is a fundamental and significant difference between a thought and a belief. You see, it’s your belief systems that direct your awareness. Awareness operates, in much the same fashion, as your car lights do at night. Even though there is a</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> whole world out there in the darkness at night, you only see what your headlights, or belief systems, reveal. This is very similar to how your awareness operates. In awareness, however, your belief systems act as your headlights. In other words, your beliefs focus your awareness in the same way that your headlights direct your vision.<br /><br />Although awareness gets programmed in many ways, the most powerful are what we call beliefs. A belief is something you hold onto because you KNOW it is true. But unlike a thought, which actually forms words or images in your brain, a belief system is generally silent. Our thoughts are much easier to manipulate and change because we are aware and conscious of them. It takes much longer to change a belief system. This is such an important point. Behind every thought lies the hidden program of belief. For example, if you don’t believe you can succeed at lifestyle change, you most likely won’t!</span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The truth is, if you don’t believe you can succeed, the battle is already lost. There is nothing more motivating or destructive than the power of belief. It can be your best friend or you worst enemy. The more aware you are of your underlying belief systems, however, the more powerful you become. And awareness is the key to creating that change. Awareness is like a beam of light in the dark room of your belief systems. It breaks through the darkness, shows the way and allows you to move with confidence. Today’s assignment has to do with awareness. Your mission: identify one belief inside you that holds you back in some way. Awareness is the first step toward change!<br /><br />Wishing You Great Health!<br />Dr. John H. Solar</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I<span style="font-size: large;">t's past 4 pm and I'm on my way home from Brooklyn. A 30 minutes ride becomes a sleepdriving struggle as my eyes close and my head tilts and bobs beyond my control with every pavement denivelation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I drive up the crowded 48th St and passed the UPS yard I cross an intersection and slowly roll along Calvary Cemetery fence. At this point my eyes can no longer stay open. Eyeliner smeared under dark Blues Brothers sunglasses I wobble and jerk under the burden of sleep deficit. That makes me a graveyard escapee; I feel and look like one. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Down a potholed side street I turn right instead of left and drive onto a narrow, winding path fenced by leaf stripping trees and gray headstones. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's quiet. No traffic. No people. Here, there a visi</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">tor or a landscaper. I pull to the curb next a mausoleum bearing a Italian name, recline my seat, sunglasses on, hands on my chest and I the temporary defunct descend into the convulsed world of REM. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An hour into it I brusquely arise dazed and irritated at a nagging sound waving from my bag; my phone is ringing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Dinner's ready, we're waiting for you, what's your 10/20? Hubby </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">demands.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I'm not far. I'll be home in 5 minutes." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hang up, refresh my eyeliner apply a fresh coat of red lipstick then, all rested and wide awake I drive the entire 0.2 </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">mile home without incident. Around the kitchen table hubby and our two children patiently wait to dig in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Why are you late? Where were you? They chorally burst. </span></span><br />
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And I tell. Once finished with the story of my cemetery nap hubby exclaims "So why didn't you stay there?" </span><br />
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