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Note: I've had the great privilege to meet, speak, and learn from discussions with Robert H. Deluty, born and raised in New York City. He and His wife have two adopted Korean children.
He has his Ph.D in Clinical-Community Psychology and is a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written for: The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun, Welcome Home, The Journal of Therapy Poetry, Frogpond, Muse of Fire, Harpers, etc.,
I share because the poem *Lessons. Mr Deluty has explained in detail to me (Below). Mr Deluty knows suffering and teaches via his gentle lifestyle and writings.
He knows History. He is a gentleman who also... knows human Nature.
Like the film..."Life is Beautiful"... Peace must be first within a person.
(I am sure it's okay to share LESSONS. We recently spoke of war and the generational impact.
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Lessons*
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He loved to tell the story of how,
On his first day of Yeshiva
In Poland's Jewish Ghetto,
Mothers brought honey cakes,
Shaped like the letters of the
Hebrew alphabet,
So that their children
Would come to associate
Learning with sweetness.
A brilliant man, deprived by war
Of even a high school education,
He set foot on a college campus
More than fifty years later to attend
His first son's Ph.D. conferral.
When introduced to the faculty,
With utmost respect and pleasure,
Be bowed.
*His second son, now a professor,
Remembers these stories
As he teaches his his daughter
Her ABCs.
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( I want to say, "His second *son, now a professor, and wrote the poem, I bow"...)
from his first book, 'Within and Between'....
