After more than three decades in the music industry, the multitalented recording artist Moby shared this insight about his craft in an interview in 2016. The musician struggled with substance abuse early in his career, before exploring healthier lifestyles and avenues of spiritual satisfaction — including music itself. “Music,” he reflected, “can operate as such a powerful and profound healing modality even though technically it has no material substance. But somehow it can make you dance, can make you cry, can make you sing, can make you drive across a country, can make you do all sorts of things.”

• If you receive an unsolicited text message in combination with a phone call from HVCU or its “fraud department,” please STOP.
• If you are ever directed by phone to reply “yes” or “no” to a text related to a transaction you did not perform, please STOP.
• If you are asked to provide your Internet Banking credentials or debit card PIN under the premise of verifying a transaction, please STOP.
• Hang up immediately and contact HVCU.

Always take the time to consider what a text or caller is asking of you. HVCU will never ask you to give us your debit card PIN or your Internet Banking credentials or One Time Passcode. Pausing to think for just a moment can prevent someone from using your information fraudulently to take your money. 

Thank you for helping us protect your accounts.

Known as the father of American literature, Mark Twain is famous for his classic novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884). But it was in his 1894 novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” that Twain wrote these memorable words on the subject of courage. Though courage and fear are often viewed as opposite experiences, they are actually intrinsically related: Fear is a common and natural feeling, but bravery comes from being able to overcome it.

PUBLIC NOTICE
Temporary Opening of Waiting List

The City of Beacon Housing Authority will open its waiting list for both the Tenant Based and
the Project Based Housing Choice Voucher Program on 4/1/22.

Applications will be available for pick up beginning April 1, 2022 at 9:00 am at our main office
located at One Forrestal Heights, Beacon, NY 12508. Applications will only be issued on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday during normal business hours.

Applications are available by
email – send your request to reception@beaconhousingauthority.org

Completed applications must be MAILED to: The City of Beacon Housing Authority, One
Forrestal Heights, Beacon, NY 12508 or DROPPED OFF in our lock box at the same location.
Faxed or emailed applications will not be accepted.

All fully completed applications must be received in our lock box or postmarked by August 31, 2022. The waiting list will close at 12PM on August 31, 2022 and no further applications will
be issued or received.

All applicants must be 18 years or older. Any incomplete, illegible, or late applications will be
returned to sender.

For more information on our housing programs, please visit our website at
www.beaconhousingauthority.org

The City of Beacon Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Housing Provider

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE ANNUAL CHARGE FOR RUNNING AIR CONDITIONERS AT FORRESTAL HEIGHTS.

Effective immediately the yearly charge of $80 for AC Units at the Forrestal Heights Property has been eliminated. Starting this summer BHA will no longer collect the $80 per unit to cover the cost of running air conditioning units for the summer months. However, the installation / removal fee of $20 per unit will remain in effect until further notice.

This beautifully hopeful line begins a short poem by 14th-century Persian poet and mystic Hafiz, who is known for his lyrical musings on theology and philosophy. The poem reflects on love, loneliness, and belonging in the greater context of time and space. Sometimes in our most difficult and darkest moments, we need to be reminded of the power of our own value and beauty. As Hafiz writes, “Look what happens with a love like that / It lights the whole sky.”

This event will take place on the 24th of March in the Forrestal Heights Conference Room at 10:00am. Please feel free to attend!

Today, Stephen King is one of the most successful authors in history: The horror king has more than 50 bestselling novels under his belt, several of which have been adapted into classic films such as “Carrie” and “The Shining.” Yet for many years, King struggled with addiction while enduring repeated rejection of his written works. In his 2000 book “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,” King reminds readers that hope and positive thinking are the only productive responses to failure. “The nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it,” he recalled in his memoir. “I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

Author of such modernist works as “Tropic of Capricorn” and “The Rosy Crucifixion,” Henry Miller was a creative iconoclast in the early 20th century. He broke with many literary traditions in favor of stream-of-consciousness, surrealist, and even mystical writings. Miller’s spirited approach was outlined by the “11 Commandments for Writing” he devised in the 1930s while working on “Tropic of Cancer.” Commandment number three banished anxiety and worry, and Miller gave himself permission to invest fully and passionately in whatever task was before him.