The Writer's Block

In an e-mail from Jean Fieg, your editor's mummy and wife of the late V.P. Fieg, comes this poem for the Fieg Family News, "Because 25 years have passed since its founding...."

A Paean to the Founder

Reaching for newness, for an untried experience,

A man who did not grow old or stale or uninteresting, he was

Youthful, always, in my mind and in his, and

Mindful of the potential in every small thing.

The joys of understanding,

Of instilling this in others, in us -

No stone unturned, no opportunity neglected.

Driven by curiosity and love of knowing how and why, he

Accepted the how and why as truth,

Valued conicidence and trial and error and the

Infinite possibilities of the human brain and spirit, and -

Just when we think we may finally have some answers -

And are ready to spill the beans - evening falls,

Night embraces us all.

Jean Davie Fieg

Says Jean, "Your dad used that phrase, often, spill the beans, and as a tribute to his sense of humor [it] was incorporated...it seems to stand out as a guffaw might, in a conversation.
                                                                  
In the hospital, I recall his last words to me, Raymon, and Sonja , also  present (though it was Diana and Sonja at the very end), "Two steps forward and one step back."  

Thanks, Mom!                                        

                       

Love Birds

On June 9 Bill and Diana Fieg Doyle hosted a celebration of their recent wedding, with around 30 friends and relatives in attendance.  The party was held at Croton Point Park, a 508-acre park situated on a peninsula on the east shore of the Hudson River in Croton-on-Hudson, where the Doyles reside.

Anne and John Roman and Lisa Fieg, the new bride's cousins, represented the family and Anne shared the photo below.  (Love the "heart-carved-in-a-tree" message on the cake!)

Diana reports that, as a wedding gift, she received a free manicure, pedicure and hair styling courtesy of the salon she frequents.  Also, after the recent record-setting rains, she gushed that the weather could not have been more perfect, with blue skies and puffy white clouds.

Wishes for happiness and serenity go out to Diana and Bill from all of us!

Eight is GREAT!

Greg Fieg called your editor the other day with wonderful news.  His daughter, Sarah Corkery, and her husband Kevin are expecting baby number eight around January 3, 2014.

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to chat with the new mom (no, that's not the right term; she is the mom anew!), after enjoying a heart-warming rendition of the title song "The Sound of Music" warbled by the three oldest girls, Maren, Collette and Grace, over the phone.  We traded women's war stories (childbirth tales) and Sarah told me about being blown away by four-year-old daughter Frances' singing debut, an impromptu rendition of something from "The Phantom of the Opera" on an open mike following a recent children's performance.  I expect we'll see the Corkery Sisters on the Great White Way or America's Got Talent pretty soon.

The newest addition to the Corkery family will bask in the love of the aforementioned sisters as well as child number four, Karoline, and twin brothers Sean and Seamus at their home in Oneonta, N.Y.  We wish them well.