Good Tidings From Salem-News.com

Editors note: The sharing of this poem is a gift, which we accept with much thanks to Hank. Happy holidays!

(SALEM) - Friends, Readers and All Others:

This year’s Christmas season is so fraught with dire possibility and definite debacles, on nearly every side, that reminiscence from the ‘70s brought out again a moving moment-then, from BCR, prior to her six-year illness with Alzheimer’s.

SO --with some small misgivings, but encouraged by the kind comments over some past months from so many of you, here’s Bea’s “70s Moment” to add its solid strength to your Holiday Season, whatever it may be --with Best Christmas Wishes from Op Eds/Salem-News:

“Hang In There, Baby!” Hang in there, Baby! Maybe Your life’s rocking and reeling, You’re not feeling groovy; More like a Grade B horror-movie. Hang in there, Baby! Maybe In this comedy of compulsive errors Somehow we’ll lick these terrors.

Like the human encounter; and trial That gives to existence style. ---BCR 1970