Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

August 2 2013

“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”

  – Abraham Maslow 1908-1970

A New York native and professor at Brooklyn College, Maslow moved to Brandeis University during the 50’s and 60’s. He created a humanistic school of psychology that advanced self-actualization as a path for personal growth, almost Taoist in its then revolutionary rejection of materialism. At a time when most academic psychologists studied dysfunction, he looked at how self-motivated, well-adjusted people ordered their lives. His books include Toward a Psychology of Being (1968) and The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971), and his “Hierarchy of Needs,” a pyramidal diagram showing the interrelated nature of personal necessities, has become an iconic graphic. Among his many other memorable quotes: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

Greg Bover

Hi Joey,

I’m a new-ish Gloucester resident ( and long cape ann appreciator ) come over from great neck in ipswich.
photographer, writer, musician, yoga-ist, pet rescuer, social scientist, long time house cleaner & interior design/ clutter buster, future counselor, yoga & health teacher and all round cool person, lol. I look at your page regularly and have been meaning to send some photos and such.
Gloucester is fascinating, and i’m glad to be here.

I have 2 hounds, one, DUNCAN, an american-english coonhound ( lemon-spotted, no less !), southern rescue,
a really serious tracking/hunting dog. ( pacifist tho, he doesn’t kill, or end the hunt ). One of the business plans i was about to emBARK on
is an exercise excursion for dogs, or dogs and humans, led my self and my hounds thru the woods… at an appropriate level of fitness.
these dogs not only lead a good outdoor work out, but they can show you where many different animals live and the paths they travel, etc.
We enjoy the beaches, and the woods and quarries daily, and get to know the woods and the people and animals in them better and better. This would be an important element of our excursions.

Sadly, i think Duncan has gone off to do the research on his own. The two hounds slipped out the back of our Lanesville Home. I woke up to find the little one home on the couch looking dazed 2 days later. Duncan has now been gone a week. He was last seen & heard baying/ singing up by Nelson’s quarry last weekend. He knows how to live in the woods, as he did in Virginia, and i have a feeling someone has seen him and is putting out food in hopes he’ll come. And that he’s eating the food and taking off to track again. he’s like an addict when he tracks. So i’m writing to you
in hopes that some of your readership may have seen or HEARD him ( very distinctive sing-song-y bay)
and in hopes that some of them might have good knowledge of Dogtown and the Quarry area that they might want to show off.
I don’t feel i can just leave him out there alone. I’m hoping some people might want to help me search for him, create some search parties.

Duncan is such a special dog to me. I’ve lost a lot lately, but at least i still had him. Now he’s running around dog town somewhere and i’ve got to somehow find him before he gets his foot caught in a pile of rocks or something. If anyone has seen, heard or can help make search parties for him please contact me
at: suburban_seaqueen@yahoo.com( and should i include a phone # ?)
Thank you in advance !!

alexandra stella d’maris