The history of The Springs in one of change and reinvention. Each of the four hamlets that encompass this special area has a fascinating history of its own and collectively, the region has faced great challenges, from economic to natural to social. For hundreds of... Continue
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How funny it is that everybody's talking 'bout The Cloud! English lexicon has caught up with the reality of human consciousness: we have always had our heads in the clouds. Human beings float in a boundless sky of mental and emotional ambiguity from which we... Continue
While I was having lunch with "the guys" I began talking about "how we know what we know." One friend interjected that what I was saying was "too abstract" to be of interest. This has happened to me before, and in such social situations switching topics... Continue
How did we end up here, where citizens of the same country, living and working side by side, are occupying two very different Americas? The RNC felt like ‘Nuremberg on the Cuyahoga.’ After a bumpy start, the DNC convention ended as the ‘Philly Festival of... Continue
By Edwin Reyes -- Argentinean Alfonsina Storni in her poem, Peso Ancestral (translated as “ancestral burden”) describes the pressure on Latino males to act like a man, showing no emotions, because that was how they were raised. For Latinos as a population, that ancestral burden... Continue
In this election season, we've been hearing the word ‘trust’ thrown around quite a bit. We have become a society looking for leaders we can trust. So, it got me thinking about the importance of trust in the nonprofit world, and especially about the importance... Continue
The rise of Donald Trump has many people shaking their heads in disbelief. How, they wonder, can a man who is so brutish and nasty rise to the Presidential candidacy of the Republican Party? The form of this query betrays a fundamental error: Trump is... Continue
I get Donald Trump. I don't like him, but I get him. I understand why he acts and sounds like a jerk; The Donald is annoyed. Being annoyed places him the company of a lot of New Yorkers and former New Yorkers, like me. When... Continue
The world is coming undone right in front of our eyes? Why so much anger everywhere? Is it the fight or flight impulse? Poverty? Is it fear or beliefs or deep wounds? Unmet needs? Not getting laid? Resentment’s a sticky wicket. It can come from... Continue
I'm old enough to have been right in the middle of the cultural, political and social turmoil of the nineteen sixties, and amidst the world's current upheavals I sometimes feel as if history is repeating itself. It's not difficult to make comparisons about then and... Continue