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JUNE 2005

A Celebration of Father’s Day:
Education Update’s Staff Shares Insights

Father

By Liza Young

With Selfless devotion
There at my side
Tending to a wound
Or celebrating my accomplishments with pride
Instilling a thirst for books and art
Surrounding us with Van Gogh, O’ Henry, Mozart
The work you do for others so inspiring
I look up to you, admiring
Of your knowledge and brilliance,
Of your morality, kindness and resilience


My Father

By Nazneen Malik

I have always admired my father for his stubborn self-confidence and courage. To travel across distant oceans and adopt a foreign land, alone and without much money, is no small undertaking.
He is a confidant of sorts, a persistent reminder that to achieve one only has to believe in the possibility; the hero of my childhood memories, bearing gifts of books and chocolate, and the conqueror of midnight monsters and unwanted bugs. He is the storyteller who awakened my imagination and encouraged me to create my own fiction. And although there are many things about my father that remain elusive to me, hidden in conversations we are yet to have, as I grow older, I no longer regard him as simply a parental figure but as a friend. Happy Father’s Day!


A Bicycle Ride

By Gillian Granoff

To my father, my teacher my coach and my friend
My hands clench the handlebars, flushed red in anticipation
With you behind me, I pedal faster
your gait quickened to match my pace
just a few steps behind me you hold tightly to the fender.

I sail smoothly on solid ground,
Exhilarated by my independence, I pedal faster
I steal away from you: my caretaker, my hero,
In my newfound freedom, I forget you.

Then I remember you;
In a hesitant moment I turn, fall and cling to the pavement
I search for safety and find it in the pools of your eyes
I wrap myself safely in their embrace.

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