BRONX, NY – January 4, 2017 – The Oil Heat Cares Foundation, an initiative of the National Association of Oil & Energy Service Professionals (OESP), is bringing much more than New Year’s well-wishes to an appreciative family in the Bronx. […]

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Shah Jahan (1592) Shah Jahan succeeded to the throne of India’s Mughal Empire in 1628 and ruled for 30 years. His reign was notable for its successes against the Deccan states. Though attempts to reconquer lost territory almost bankrupted the […]

Indigen Definition: (noun) One that is native or indigenous to an area. Synonyms: Aborigine, Native Usage: Because they had physical characteristics known to be conductive to life in the cold, we thought they must be indigen of Alaska.

Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793) Mott was an American social reformer and women’s rights advocate. She attended a Quaker boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York, where she later taught, and became an official Quaker minister in 1821. She was active in […]

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. George Eliot (1819-1880)

Concomitant Definition: (adjective) Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant. Synonyms: Accompanying, Consequent, Ensuant, Resultant, Sequent, Incidental Usage: There is scarce any human good without it’s concomitant evil.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Ernest Barlach (1870) Barlach was an outstanding German expressionist sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. Through the power of his simple, angular, and compact forms, he communicated intense emotion and compassion. From clay modeling he turned to wood carving and woodcutting, […]

Pergola Definition: (noun) An arbor or a passageway of columns supporting a roof of trelliswork on which climbing plants are trained to grow. Synonyms: Arbor, Bower Usage: The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola.

Wealth should not be seized…for if a man take great wealth violently and perforce, or if he steal it through his tongue, as often happens when gain deceives men’s sense and dishonor tramples down honor, the gods soon blot him […]