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Fifteen Years

Spontaneous Memorials cropped up all over the city in the days following 9/11/2001

Can it be fifteen years since that one Morning?

I had just opened my own Business in New York — moved into the Office the Week Before.
A friend was coming down from Westchester to help me set up my Computer Systems, and I was to meet her at Grand Central at 9:45am.
My Partner saw me to the door, as I was heading off.
Our downstairs neighbor was heading slowly up the steps toward us — which was unusual all by itself — and looking somewhat eerily stunned.
“Have you guys heard the news this morning?” she asked.
We had not.
“A plane hit the World Trade Center!
They don’t know if it’s an accident or terrorism or what.
I am just heading up to the roof to have a look.”
We joined her. (more…)

Day of Atonement

A Jewish Colleague and Friend asked me last week, “Can I ask you a question? Where did you learn your Yiddisha? You speak it better than anyone I know. You spell it better than anyone I know…”

I had signed an Email “L’Shonah Tova Tikatevu!” (i.e.: “HAPPY NEW YEAR! May You be inscribed and sealed [in the Book of Life] for a Good year…”)

I told her that I grew up in New York Theater, and the Fabulous BARBARA COLTON was my Mentor in such things!
I also have spent the Jewish Holidays every year with my Best Friend’s Family (And after more than 35 years, Very Much My Own Family Too!)

I’ve Always Enjoyed So Many Aspects of Judaism.

I Love that each Day Begins with a Beautiful Sunset.

(more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 24, 2015 • Permalink

Posted in Community, Holidays & Celebrations, Kindness, Miracles, Nostalgia

Tagged 5776, 5777, BARBARA COLTON, Day of Atonement, How are prayers answered, How to deal with the Homeless, Inflation, Jewish Holidays, John Lennon, L'Shonah Tova Tikatevu, Military, Nixon, Rosh Hashanah, Subway Tokens, Veterans, What can I do for the Homeless?, What things cost in 1960s, Yiddisha, Yom Kippur

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 24, 2015

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/09/24/day-of-atonement/

The Sweetness of Now

Growing up,
We lived upstairs in Apartment 4A.
My Aunt lived downstairs with her family in Apartment 1A.

My Mother and her Sister talked every day
Several times a day.
When prime time television ended each night at 11pm, My Aunt would bang on the Radiator Pipe to let us know she was coming up.
My Mother would grab a wooden spoon and bang back to let her know it was OK.
I never understood the point of this, as they came every night at the same time
and it was always OK.
My Aunt and Uncle would sit with my Mother and Father,
and they would have a cup of coffee together before bedtime.

My Mother and her Sister shared all kinds of things. (more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on July 21, 2015 • Permalink

Posted in Community, Mom, Nostalgia, Recipes

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on July 21, 2015

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/07/21/the-sweetness-of-now/

Why I Teach

As another semester draws to a close, and the Students continue to change from year to year, it seems like a good moment to pause and look at Why I Teach…

Barbara Walters

Perez Hilton

Because I grew up with BARBARA WALTERS
And you grew up with PEREZ HILTON.

Because I grew up in the EISENHOWER/KENNEDY Era
And you grew up in the REAGAN/BUSH Era.

Because I grew up learning Table Manners
And you grew up learning Apps.

Because when I grew up, we made it,
And when you grew up, you bought it.

Because when I grew up, Discipline and Respect and Good Sportsmanship were Values taught to us,
And when you grew up, Everyone got a Trophy.

(more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on May 24, 2015 • Permalink

Posted in Community, Legacy, Nostalgia, Speaking Out, Uncategorized

Tagged 1984, Abraham Lincoln, Angela Lansbury, average salary of CEOs, average salary of employees, Babe Ruth, banks as a service industry, barbara walters, berries, Bruce Jenner, career as a teacher, Cost of a Plug, Desiderata, discipline, Edward Snowden, eisenhower kennedy, Frank Sinatra, George Orwell, George W. Bush, gmo, Government Of the People By the People For the People, greed is good, helen hayes, how many plastic water bottles are disposed of every day, How to deal with Students, I teach that I may Learn, ivan bosky, Jackie Robinson, Joe DIMaggio, john F Kennedy, Justin Bieber, lobbyist, manners, Martin Luther King Jr., Max Ehrmann, michael jackson, miley cyrus, monsanto, ocean gyre, perez hilton, Pope John XXIII, Price of a Movie, price of a movie ticket, reagan bush, Reasons for Teaching, respect, Students today, teaching, The Beatles, time magazine person of the year, vanessa hudgens, What are teachers thinking, what is a lobbyist, Why be a teacher

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on May 24, 2015

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/05/24/why-i-teach/

NewSpeak: 30 Years Later

Remember Seeing that Book, 1984, as a Kid?
Remember thinking, “WOW! I’ll be in my twenties when that year comes!
We will Live to See This!”
Remember then thinking, “I will Live to See the Year 2000?”
Or with somewhat less confidence, “Maybe I’ll Live to see portable video phones — like Dick Tracy’s wristwatch!” (more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 22, 2014 • Permalink

Posted in Nostalgia, Speaking Out

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 22, 2014

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/11/22/newspeak-30-years-later/

Growing Up Rich

Did you grow up Rich?
I did.

I see the throngs headed toward Penn Station
from their Manhattan Dwellings every Friday…
Struggling with bags and juggling train schedules,
Paying Fares on the LIRR or NEW JERSEY TRANSIT,
and on taxis and ferries
Just to get out to some tiny house they own
so that they can enjoy a sliver of sunshine.

When I was a Kid, My Father gave us the Ocean
And the Sky.

(more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 3, 2014 • Permalink

Posted in Gratitude, Mom, Nostalgia, Recipes

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on September 3, 2014

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/09/03/growing-up-rich/

How I Spent My Twenties

In this Season of Pride, I Offer the Following…

Coming of Age
Ten Years after StoneWall
How the Older Men looked at me with such envy
I was oblivious to what their struggle had bought me.
I took my Freedom to Love quite for granted.
I looked at them just as Old Men who understood nothing
of what I and the other Young Men were capable.
I saw no connection between what they had been through
And my Freedom to Love whomever I chose. (more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on June 26, 2014 • Permalink

Posted in Holidays & Celebrations, Nostalgia, Speaking Out

Tagged A Chorus Line, AIDS Crisis, Gay Pride, Gay Pride NY, Getting Older Gay, How the AIDS Crisis got started, Joseph Papp, Lasagna, Manicotti, Michael Bennett, People with AIDS, Pride 2014, Pride New York, Raymond Jacobs, Ronald Reagan

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on June 26, 2014

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/06/26/gay-pride/

Cookies

Do You Like to Bake?

I do.
I was doing my Christmas Baking this week (The Season Continues… We are still celebrating around here…), and as I was mixing the dough with my electric handmixer, I thought back to recipes that read, “Beat for 300 strokes.”

It isn’t that long ago cookie dough was mixed with a fork.
Hershey’s was the only cocoa.
And Nestle’s were the only chocolate chips.

And I began to think about the other Miracles in my Kitchen… (more…)

ReCommencement: A Tribute to the CSHS Class of ’78, on the Occasion of our 35th ReUnion

Back in October, Members of the Cardinal Spellman High School Class of ’78 enjoyed our 35^th High School Reunion.
Reconnecting with all of these Wonderful People inspired me to write the following piece. (more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on December 31, 2013 • Permalink

Posted in Nostalgia

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on December 31, 2013

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2013/12/31/recommencement-a-tribute-to-the-cshs-class-of-78-on-the-occasion-of-our-35th-reunion/

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