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"YOUR WORDLESS SONG IS NOW MY OWN” by Oksana Lukaszewycz — Polon Obscure as the unattended flower, You stand in Autumnal frost... Anchored and gazing into nights bleakness, Remembrances... Untangled shadows of memory.. Washed with lifes sorrows... Was not your heart, Woven of humble joys and cares? So let me remember you... Sometimes overshadowed, By times echoing passage.. Let me hear your voice againg, In dreamlike slowness... Times passage not obscuring, The magic of your voice... Nor quelling the silent emptiness.. Drop an anchor into defenseless waters, Into the vast void of the sea of time.. Into the ever flowing tide of life, With soft spoken words at last... Only to recede again and diminish... With dreamlike slowness we journey in corridors of time... Unfaltering, your song drifting alone, NEWS AND VIEWS Quite some time has passed since last this column appeared in print. It would be nice if I could claim that we are back by popular demand. In reality, this writer’s muteness was echoed by an equally deafening silence on the part of readers. Except for one. My mother. She, alone, mentioned that she missed seeing my byline. So, in this month when we celebrate Mother’s Day, I would like to dedicate May’s NEWS AND VIEWS to my female parent, who has always been one of my biggest fans and best of critics. Each of us knows how much a mother’s love, care and support sustains, enriches and brightens a child’s life. Moreover, we all are aware that the time, energy and commitment required to raise a human being to adult hood is staggering. And no one needs to tell us that, traditionally, women have assumed the primary responsibility for child-rearing, whether we have performed other roles in life — such as working in the labor force — or not. Today, woman’s status as mother is under siege. There are those, like Phyllis Schlafly, who maintain that ’’women’s libbers” are to blame. Proclaiming them selves ’’pro-family” advocates, these critics of the О. Лукашевич-Попон. Лінорит — Мати й Дитина Stirs, as a blossom embraced by wind, Greeting my dawn, and into my consciousness; If we had forever, if there were only time. For you are morning of the dying amber night, Eyes agleam with the first rays of dawning, Gently embracing your surroundings, Journeying always in the fragrant air of spring, Your wordless song is now my own. MOTRIA KUSHNIR women’s movement would have us believe that bra- burning, extremist feminists have caused the demise of the nuclear family in modern culture. Quite recently, Phyllis took time out from her busy speaking schedule — she’s preaching the bible of stay- at-home to other women, while gallivanting about the country promoting her own political career — to testify at a Congressional hearing against reform of Social Security legislation. The Social Security laws, written in 1939, currently discriminate against women. Changing the statutes to equalize benefits, according to Schlafly, will only encourage more women to leave home for paying jobs. Phyllis’ brilliant solution to the problem is perpetuation of discriminatory practices which serve to impoverish women. Given the fact that the entire Social Security system is on the verge of bankruptcy, Schlafly’s pro-family rhetoric appears motivated by concerns other than promotion of homemaking as a career for females. The current administration needs all the help it can get to block expansion of benefit rights. Economics, and not the salvation of the family, is the crucial issue which needs to be evaluated here. Before attempting a serious consideration of the
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