People
Want to help thousands of people but don’t have the Rockefeller bucks to it
When she was in third grade, Quinn Donover painted a nutty-looking orange cat with yellow eyes and purple-splotched fur, set against a multicolored backdrop of swirls and streaks so frenetic they seem to jiggle on the canvas. Reproductions of her painting, dubbed “Crazy Cat,” have since been used by nonprofit Fresh Artists to raise thousands of dollars for art programs in underfunded schools. Kids like Donover, who is now 24, share their masterpieces with Fresh Artists, which uses digital images of the work to create and sell posters, tote bags, and board games.
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive. Parenthood in the United States has become much more demanding than it used to be. Over just a couple of generations, parents have greatly increased the amount of time, attention and money they put into raising children. Mothers who juggle jobs outside the home spend just as much timetending their children as stay-at-home mothers did in the 1970s.
Kansas Boy, 16, Is Set to Graduate in the Spring From High School — and Harvard
In many ways, Braxton Moral seems a lot like other teenagers. Most days, he goes to sleep around 11 p.m. and wakes up around 7 or 8 a.m. He likes to play video games, particularly World of Warcraft. He hangs out with his friends and goes to the movies.
Lakshmibai Kelkar
Lakshmibai Kelkar – Mausiji Women have the power to nurture, create and transform. From time immemorial there have been inspiring women like Mother Teresa and Helen Keller who have triumphed against great odds and achieved their goal. One such crusader for women’s emancipation in India was Smt Lakshmibai Kelkar who was affectionately referred to as ‘Vandaneeya Mausiji’.
A Philly Plumber Found a Bag of Items Stolen 20 Years Ago Inside a Wall. Then, He Found its Owner.
When union plumber Lou DiOrio found a duffel-size Merrill Lynch bag inside a wall while working at a Center City construction site Friday, his mind couldn’t help but wander.
Know it all Bosses Have a lot to Learn
Executives who act like they have all the answers often reject input from others, to the detriment of their careers BY JOANN S. LUBLIN, The Wall Street Journal, 10th January 2019.
The Housecleaning Job That Saved My Life
My client knew she was dying. She helped me figure how to live.
Voorhees Residents Weigh in on an International ‘think tank’ for Religious Peace in their Backyard
The fate of a self-made millionaire’s dream of creating an academic hub, or ashram, in Voorhees for scholars and scientists to study solutions to religious conflict was being debated late Thursday before the township’s zoning board.
Ralph Metzner, LSD and Consciousness Researcher Dies at 82
Ralph Metzner, a psychotherapist who began his career working with Timothy Leary on controversial studies at Harvard involving LSD and other drugs, then spent a lifetime exploring and writing about expanded consciousness in all sorts of cultures and settings, died on March 14 at his home in Sonoma, Calif.
S N Goenka's Speech at the United Nation
Religion is religion only when it unites Friends. Leaders of the human spiritual world. Leaders of the human religious world.
Mother's Day
Mother’s Day is not just for those who are still around
Rohit Khanna
From Council Rock to Congress: Philly-born Ro Khanna is saving U.S. foreign policy from itself