The Maroon Vol. 3… No. 62
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
“Bringing us all to a place we don't want to lose."
Observer: The Story Of Our Age
Macky’s New York: Summer Session In Half Swing
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame: Made For & Inspired By RHS Alumni
Project Arrow: Creating An Online Home For RHS Arrow Yearbooks
M + A NYC: Mighty Are We As One
James Stroker: Hope Coach
Jim Schoneman: Rock Hound
Siobhan Crann Winograd: Around The Village
Kathy & Ross Petras: You’re Saying It Wrong
Ridgewood Library, Bolger Heritage Center: Ridgewood In The 1950s
Observer
The Story Of Our Age
There was a time when the announcement of a new Apple Smart Phone model would prompt customers to lineup at the Apple store to purchase the newest I-Phone.
Now you have to ask yourself: Do you know anybody without a smartphone? Except for people under ten, few people are without a smartphone.
The Apple Smart Phone is a very good tool for people who want more computational power in their hands than all the Nasa Engineers who first put astronauts on the Moon. Yes, this device and others like it, make our lives easier and somewhat incomparable to Life just 25 years ago. Our phones are with us from when we wake to when we go to sleep.
From all the attention it gets in a variety of media and the massive changes it has shaped, it would seem obvious this tool needs to be used thoughtfully and with discretion. Well, while this is mostly accepted as fact, the case can be made that not everyone is practicing the safe handling of private information or the need to avoid causing offense when you can.
In the final analysis of Smart Phones, I think history will be kind. Its legacy will be revealed in its effectiveness when used in small groups. Trying to make a virile sensation that a majority of people hear about will just be a quaint reminder of an earlier time period.
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
August 1, 2023 - Washington Square Park
Summer Session In Half Swing
A Tuesday afternoon brings a subtle rumble to the park - if I could...I'd sit here all day but a Tuesday afternoon also brings a subtle rumble to my belly and so...off to the cheeseburger joint I go.
Shot in the fountain looking north with Empire State Building in distance
Time 3pm
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
81 Warren Avenue, Hohokus.
I've always been fascinated by this house. It's a little castle perched atop the ravine that the Hohokus Brook cuts through. It's right next to the bridge and spitting distance from the beautiful Worth-Pinkham library's front door.. Talk about fairy tale living for a kid...
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Made For & Inspired By RHS Alumni
Visit the RHS Hall of Fame
Digital Printing for the RHS Hall of Fame provided by Tim Boucher, RHS 1988
Project Arrow
Creating An Online Home For RHS Arrow Yearbooks
Details To Be Available in July, 2023
Digital archiving by Michael Culver, RHS 2002, and his firm 1Row.com
M + A NYC
Mighty Are We As One
Shop home décor and wearable accessories at www.mplusanyc.com
James Stroker
Hope Coach
"Maybe today you utilize that space between what’s happened and your perception of where it’s going to take you.
Maybe today that thing that has happened and that outcome you perceive has an opportunity to be shifted.
Maybe today you just adjust that internal narrative of a problem you have to an actual possibility?
Maybe that challenge you’re facing inside of it has a choice and an opportunity to shift a hopeless mindset to one of hope.
The two shoe salesmen were sent to a remote island to sell shoes. The first salesman walked out of his hotel room the first morning and saw that no one was wearing shoes. He immediately picked up his phone and told the office to get him the quickest flight home, there was no opportunity here.
The second shoe salesman walked out of his hotel room and saw that no one was wearing shoes. He got on his phone told the office to the island this place was a gold mine. No one wore shoes yet!
Got to go babysit! Or get to go babysit?
Got to go to the gym today! Or get to go to the gym today!
Another day or an incredible day.
Hard problem or challenging possibility.
Every year as a basketball coach in the last scrimmage of our preseason we would bring in the famed Saint Anthony’s of Jersey City. Bob Hurley would bring his incredible kids into Ridgewood to play against our undersized less talented group of kids.
Of all the games with the play that year no game offered more lessons and insights and wisdom about who we were.
It was tough, it was difficult, but gave us a chance to see things we would never see in an easier environment.
What is the difficult scrimmage a problem we are facing? Or possibility of learning incredible lessons.
The way we speak and describe our story of today.
The way we choose to articulate the situation we are in.
The way we, on our own volition, describe to ourselves and often times others what’s going on in her life tremendously impacts our perception and then so often manifests what eventually will happen as we are in it.
Amor Fati, the love of fate!
We all course, including me fall into the trap of reacting. The old us jumps in and reacts out of fear.
The new you and of course me pauses create space and looks at things with a different lens.
A lens tinted with optimism, hope, and positivity.
Try on the glasses today and see things differently.
You may have looked at that FedEx brand sign 1000 times without seeing the arrow between the E and the X.
You may have looked at that brand sign 1000 times without seeing, the spoon at the bottom of a lowercase e.
I hope you’ll never look at the sign again. When you change the way you look at things the things you look at will change."
Jim Schoneman
Rock Hound
Inside a yellow day lily.
Siobhan Crann Winograd
Around The Village
Village Sidewalk Sales
Kathy & Ross Petras
You’re Saying It Wrong
Ten years and one day ago, it was tata to the old tatas and so long, cancer! And now this decade later, I not only have new bionic boobs (that bear little resemblance to nature's version, but what the hey! Who needs nipples anyway!), but also a cancer-free wonderful life in sunny Spain with the hubcap! Things ain't shabby!
And because I do it every year, herewith, the moving poem I wrote back then to commemorate the occasion:
Ode to Breasts Now Gone
O lady lumps, o funfillled bumps
'twas long you were my pals.
You filled my bras, evoked hurrahs,
from boys who loved you gals.
And now you sit, o double tit
in happy garbage bin.
I'll miss you lots, but now I gots
to get new gals agin.
Ross & Kathy’s podcast: You're Saying It Wrong is a podcast that looks at what we get wrong—and what we sometimes get right—when it comes to this English language.
Ridgewood Library Bolger Heritage Center
Ridgewood In The 1950s
Ridgewood in the 1950's. Currently this view would show Jersey Mike's, but back then it was Irving's Pharmacy.