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Feb 11 2010
Muse in the Morning
Feb 10 2010
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Feb 09 2010
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Feb 08 2010
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Feb 06 2010
Friday Philosophy: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happinefs
We all grow up with a vision of what is right and just in this world. Many, if not most, of us grow up with the idea of pursuing “the American Dream”. For some that has meant the pursuit, as when it was first enunciated in 1931 by James Truslow Adams, of achieving a “better, richer, and happier life”. In his book, The Epic of America, Adams stated it this way:
that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.
Oddly, in view of today’s circumstances, Mr. Adams was a banker.
Feb 05 2010
Muse in the Morning
Feb 04 2010
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Feb 03 2010
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Feb 02 2010
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Feb 01 2010
Muse in the Morning
Feb 01 2010
Saving the trees…and maybe the bats
Back in the middle of October I posted a piece entitled Save the Trees which you were all kind enough to elevate to the Rec List. It concerned the efforts of a local group to fight the powers that be in West Orange, NJ to prevent the destruction of the Governor George Brinton McClellan Estate Old-Growth Forest and Arboretum in order that Seton Hall Prep could build additional sports field and parking lots. This land is the only old-growth forest within the northern New Jersey metropolitan area which is unprotected and endangered.
You can read more of the background at the link above. Tonight, however, I wanted to provide an update on the situation.
The trees have won a temporary reprieve…as well as an endangered species of bat which may or may not be using some of them.