By Michael Josephson

There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

It will not matter what you owned or what your were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear. So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

It won’t matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on.

At the end it won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter?

How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what your bought,

But what you built, not what you got.

What will matter is not your success,

But your significance.

What will matter is not what you learned,

But what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence,

But your character.

What will matter is not how many people you knew,

But how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.

What will matter are not your memories,

But the memories that live in those who loved you.

What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident. It is not a matter of circumstance but of choice

Choose to live a life that matters.

UNION, N.J. (2/27/10) – The Kean University women’s basketball team captured the program’s 13^th New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship, defeating #8 William Paterson University, 70-62, at Harwood Arena on Saturday evening.

The #2 Cougars (26-1) won their school-record 26^th straight game and earned the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III women’s basketball tournament. Sophomore guard Brittany Powell (Tinton Falls, N.J.) came off the bench to score 16 points, while junior forward Tiffany Patrick (Piscataway, N.J.) had a double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds for the Cougars, who have won three of the last four NJAC titles.

William Paterson (25-2) suffers just their second loss of the season, both at the hands of the Cougars, despite 16 points from senior guard Julie Haledjian (Montvale, N.J.). It is also the second time in the last four seasons Kean has defeated the Pioneers in the NJAC title game, with the Cougars winning the first of their back-to-back championships in 2006-07.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend his viewing on Wednesday morning from 10 am to 11 am at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Catholic Service 11 am in the funeral home. Interment and Rite of Committal Holy Sephulchre, Cheltenham, PA. There is no evening viewing.