12 Things for a Better New You Year
Be More Curious
Wonder more about things. Whether it’s art, music, politics or science, be more curious. Ask a few additional “whys” and then go seek the answers.
Make a Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is usually associated with a holy place, but you can define your own. Maybe it’s your hometown where [...]
God is Born
The history of the cosmos
is the history of the struggle of becoming.
When the dim flux of unformed life
struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself,
and broke at last into light and dark
came into existence as light,
came into existence as cold shadow
then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.
Behold, God is born!
He is bright [...]
The holiday season brings with it many joys, and many questions.
A lot of the questions revolve around Santa Claus, and how can he be real. How can an old overweight man travel the earth delivering toys to children? How can his reindeer fly? How can he carry all those toys? How can he fit down [...]
The mayors of Franklin Lakes & Wyckoff recently joined NJ’s Governor during a speech in Teaneck where Christie was seeking to build momentum for an end to “sick day payouts”
Sick day payouts allow an employee to accrue unused sick days and cash them in at retirement. For some municipalities, facing a large number of retirements, [...]
“It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful, but it is more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which we morally can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest [...]
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!”….and thanks to American veterans…
October is National Bully Prevention Month, it follows September which is National Suicide Prevention Awareness. Reversing the order would probably make more sense, as bullying often can lead to suicide, substance abuse, and most often depression.
An analysis of the Occupy Wall Street movement
OWS, Occupy Wall Street, is a protest campaign that originated in NYC. Protesters occupy public spaces to protest, primarily, the failures of the United States government.
Inspired by the Spring uprising that led to the fall of tyrannical regimes in Africa and The Middle East. Americans are now gathering [...]
IHHS new online newspaper and new music
It will be the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, and the Franklin Lakes families and friends who lost loved ones will suffer through this day as they have every year since. First year, tenth year, or the twentieth year anniversary, time will not lessen the loss endured.
Collectively, the tenth anniversary incorporates not [...]
See something, say something does not just apply to homeland security, it applies to securing homes, neighborhoods and communities.
A Franklin Lakes resident who saw something suspicious notified the Franklin Lakes Police Department, and two home burglars were arrested.
One of the suspects, Randy Canova, had an outstanding warrant from Passaic County, and shares the same name [...]
Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff share high schools, share services, and in the wake of the destruction caused by Irene’s flooding, they shared mutal aid as local governments responded to the natural disaster.
No lives were lost, but hundreds of lives have been impacted by the historic floods that tore through Oakland. Hundreds of homes have [...]
Former Franklin Lakes resident dies in rescue efforts
Take it for what it’s worth, but CNN Money has put out the top 100 list of best small towns to live in the United States. Chances are, if you are reading this, you are not living in one of them….but you are a contender.
The CNN review, while taken with a grain of salt, is [...]
Outdoor summer concerts offer more than just music, they offer memories. Making new ones, enjoying old ones, and just celebrating life.
It does not matter what type of music it might be, that’s a matter of taste, and throughout northern New Jersey there are flavors available to account for all those different preferences.
A lot of the [...]
The measure of a life can be in depth and breadth: how deeply we touch others, and then again how many we touch in our lifetime. Betty Ford is one person who, through struggle and courage, was able to accomplish both in her 93 years on earth.
The wife of President Gerald Ford, she was ushered [...]
The young at heart are always receptive to Nature’s influence. Take time to be a teacher, to yourself, to others, and interpret the life of a flower, a tree, a bird, a fish, and inspire yourself and others to new discoveries.