Author and spiritual teacher Amit Ray often uses meditation as a technique to teach compassion and peace — within oneself and toward others. In this quote, Ray encourages living in the moment. Unless we are mindful of the present, time can slip past us without our awareness. But when we become more intentional about taking in and appreciating every moment, life takes on more beauty. Every occasion has the potential to be breathtaking — we just have to notice it.

The City of Beacon Housing Authority will be closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday effective Wednesday November 24th at 12:30pm and will reopen on Monday November 29th at 8:00am.

BHA Management wishes all its tenants a safe and festive Thanksgiving Holiday!

The ancient Greek playwright Euripides wrote these words in his tragedy “Iphigenia in Tauris,” a story of a woman thrust into forced servitude to the goddess Artemis at the Temple of Artemis while her family back home was in turmoil. Though Iphigenia’s misfortunes may not resemble our modern plights, Euripides reminds us that even our worst circumstances can hold the possibility of good: Often, it is when we reach rock bottom that we are able to start changing our lives.

The Knights of Columbus will be providing a Holiday Meal on Thanksgiving Day to residents of BHA.

If you have not done so you must contact the office today to sign up for the Knights of Columbus Holiday Meal. Today is the deadline to get your name on the signup sheet. Please call the office today at 845-831-1289

Meals will be prepared on Thanksgiving Morning and delivered to BHA residents by the Knights of Columbus. Deliveries will start in the afternoon, you must be home to receive your meal. If you are not home your meal will be forfeited to another family. Please feel free to take advantage of this generous opportunity and get a delicious holiday meal delivered to your door.

BHA would like to thank the Knights of Columbus for their continued contributions to both BHA and the surrounding community.

Under the pseudonym “Poor Richard,” Benjamin Franklin wrote this aphorism in an edition of his yearly almanac, a collection of information, advice, and sayings published from 1733 to 1760. With these words, the founding father, inventor, and political philosopher draws a distinct line between the virtues of faith and reason. He asserts that logic can often get in the way of the cultivation of faith, whether in a deity or the belief in an idea or person. Clinging too closely to what we know, Franklin warns, can obscure the vastness of what we still have yet to learn.

IF YOU HAVE SIGNED UP FOR THIS EVENT PLEASE COME DOWN TO THE FH COMMUNITY ROOM TODAY AT 3PM TO PICK UP YOUR HOLIDAY MEAL.

Long before serving as the United Kingdom’s two-time prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli had a prolific writing career, releasing several nonfiction books and novels. This quote derives from his 1832 novel “Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Romance.” The namesake protagonist wrestles with his own novel-in-progress while visiting Pisa, Italy. Through the character, Disraeli imparts that brilliance is acquired through tough, time-consuming effort — with an endpoint. “There is a moment when a heavenly light rises over the dim world you have been so long creating, and bathes it with life and beauty,” he wrote. “Accept this omen that your work is good, and revel in the sunshine of composition.” According to “The Guardian,” Disraeli followed his own advice during the next decade, with the publication of his second trilogy. Its middle volume, “Sybil,” is the newspaper’s pick for the eleventh-greatest novel written in English.