The Rare Somewhere of Your Heart / Reality Isn’t What We Think It Is / School Calendar

Despite all the terrible things
that are happening in our World,
there is still so much Beauty
to be found
every day.

There is Beauty
in the Bible.
The Words of our Lord
are spelled with
Love Letters
to you.

And God
has Created a Natural World
that is so enchanting, Beautiful, relaxing
and calming,
for you.

It is
Truly helpful
to walk down the path of Life,
the real path through
Nature,
remembering the Happy moments,
and the unbelievable Beauty
that God provides
in His World
of rolling hills,
and Beautiful Billowing Clouds
and countless Flowers
and Birds
and Trees.

Nature
is God’s World.

Yes,
there is another World,
the World in which
your ancestors Lived,
and breathed and Loved
and survived,
and longed to be.

It is not far away.
But it has become
like a Dream,
the hidden place called
Nature,
where we instinctively want
to be.
.
It is where we see
the most Beautiful things,
where we can rest
our weary minds
and try to forget
the illusions of Life,
that were never meant
to be.

It touches our Hearts
to realize
just how much
God Loves us.

You
will never forget
the feeling of awe and wonder,
that comes from the awareness
of such Love,
as the Love
of God.
.
 You will be ascended
out
of a dark place
filled with shadows of doubt,
and into the Rare
Somewhere of your Heart.

We hang suspended
in the haunting shade
of our own shadows,
until the moment of Discovery
that
God is Alive
and He Lives in our
Hearts.
.
It makes people rethink
reality,
to finally know
the Beautiful and effortless simplicity
that
Life can be.

“In my fantasy
I see a just World
where everyone lives in Peace and Honesty.
I dream of Souls that are always free
Like a cloud that floats
Full of Humanity
in the depths of the Soul.
In my fantasy I see a bright World
Where each night there is less darkness.
I dream of Souls that are always free
Like the cloud that floats.
In my fantasy exists a warm wind
That breathes into the city, like a Friend.
I dream of Souls that are always free
Like the cloud that floats
Full of Humanity in the depths of the
Soul.”
– Ennio Morricone

Humanity
can do anything.
.
We
carry something in our
Divine Spirit and Origin,
filled with Hope 
for every Tomorrow.

The Gift of Life
is precious beyond worth,
and we should Live it
by coming Truly Alive
with deep Gratitude
in our Heart.

Our World
is very Lovely,
and much like Dreaming.
It is like a breeze
caressing a wide open meadow
and the forests and streams
in the True Nature
of our Being.

Let us become aware
 of the simple fact
that God is Love,
and so are you,
Child of God.

The whole World
is filled with Miracles.
Every Child,
all animals, birds, little insects
and even the smallest cells
we cannot even see.
.
And you,
Child of God,
are the Greatest Miracle
to ever be.

Let us Pray, 
and ask our Father in Heaven
to help us fight our greatest enemy,
ourselves.

Throughout History,
Humanity has shown the strength
and the determination,
to continue the fight for
survival.
.
And with Faith
in our Savior,
our Lord,
it will always be.

My Dear Friends,
to be surrounded by the Beauty
of GOD,
fills the Heart with Joy
and rejuvenates the
Soul.
.
Open
your eyes.
Open your Heart.
His Love
is everywhere,
in every Leaf
of every Tree,
in every blade of Grass,
and in everything
that is,
or ever will be.

Our way of Life 
can be Tranquil
and filled with inner Peace.
.
The choice
is ours,
and it will always
be.

.His Love is in
YOU,
and His Love will always
be..

Reality
is not what we think
it is.
.
It is
what God Thinks
it to be.
He
made you
and me.

Life
presents us with emotions
that transport us far away,
where we walk down pathways
filled with sensations
that are not from the
Heart.
.
And as we harvest
these feelings,
they make us cry,
make us weep,
and we get very little
sleep.

There is 
an incredible price
to pay,
for feeling all alone.

So let us remember,
the purpose of Life
is to
“Love one another as yourself.”
For everyone is yourself.
.
We
are all connected.
We are all the same
primordial energy.
We are one. 

We can feel
alone.
But we are never
alone.

Our Creator
is Closer to us
than we think,
or Know.
.
He Lives
Within.
He is the Love
in our Hearts.

Spiritual Medicine
can result from Prayer,
that lets you feel
like you are somewhere new
but somewhere familiar,
at the same time.
.
Yes,
we can be
in two places
at the same Time.

“When the Fantasy bells
Of the Universe ring,
You can fly through the sky
On a Dragonfly’s wing.
There is magic within.
There is magic without.
Follow me and you’ll learn
Just what Life’s all about
Just what Life’s all about.”
– Michael Junior

The need to be Loved
screams from every fiber
of our Being.
.
And the Voice
of God
quietly Proclaims:
“I Am Love”.

We are here
to give and receive
Love.

Goodnight.

Reality Isn’t What We Think It Is
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Newton’s laws were a good start, but quantum mechanics is now providing a mind-boggling glimpse at the building blocks of existence.

For molecules and atoms, it’s perfectly possible to be in two places at once. The field of quantum mechanics describes these very small systems, and shows us how the rules of nature can be vastly different from our everyday experiences.

“[Quantum mechanics] is changing the way we view reality. Today we think of objects as being here or there. In a quantum world, objects can be here and there at the same time. The nature itself of reality is changing in the quantum world.”

Raymond Laflamme, quantum physics researcher and Executive Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, explains that we typically think about things being either here or there, but quantum mechanics teaches us that things can be both here and there at the same time.

“The world behaves in certain ways, and since we’ve been born, we’ve been used to trying to understand some behavior of the world – try to control it, try to turn it into technology,” says Laflamme. “When we go to very small systems – the size of atoms, molecules, the kind of fundamental blocks of nature – the rules of nature change.”

This may seem like science fiction, but there are many real world applications of quantum behavior all around you.

Laflamme explains that understanding the special properties of systems at the atomic level allows us not only to predict quantum behavior, but also to control it to create new technologies. The computers we have today store information using bits, and these basic units of information can have one of two values: 0 or 1. By storing information as bits with values of 0 and 1, quantum computers gain speed and capacity.

This opens up the potential to manipulate and control all kinds of devices, from simple thermostats to lasers, making them more sensitive and precise than ever.

“We have a family of technologies which seem to be mind-boggling compared to [the devices] we have today,” adds Laflamme.

“But there is another implication – maybe more profound – it is changing the way that we view reality.”

And today, we are the place where the ideas, the lab experiments, are turning into devices that can reach the market and can affect all of you. And this is happening a lot faster than when we thought.”

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Prof. Raymond Laflamme is originally from Québec City, where he studied Physics as an undergraduate at the Université Laval. After surviving Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, he completed his PhD on aspects of general relativity and quantum cosmology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) under the direction of Stephen Hawking. Prof. Laflamme and his colleague Don Page are responsible for having changed Hawking’s mind on the reversal of the direction of time in a contracting universe (see Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time). From 1988-1992, Prof. Laflamme held a Killam post-doctoral fellowship at UBC, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge. From 1992-2001, Prof. Laflamme worked as a research scientist at Los Alamos Research Laboratory, where his interests shifted from cosmology to quantum computing. Since the mid-1990’s, Prof. Laflamme has developed theoretical approaches to quantum error correction, and has given experimental demonstrations of these techniques. In collaboration with Emmanuel Knill, Prof. Laflamme gave conditions for quantum error correcting codes, and established the fault-tolerance threshold, thereby showing that quantum computing systems could be practically useful. He went on to perform the first experimental demonstration of quantum error correction. With colleagues, he has developed a blueprint for a quantum information processor using linear optics, and devised and implemented new methods to make quantum information robust against corruption in both cryptographic and computational settings. In 2001, Laflamme returned to Canada as the founding Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), and as a founding member of the Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics. Prof. Laflamme was the Scientific Director of QuantumWorks (2000-2011), and has been Director of the Quantum Information Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) since 2003, and a CIFAR Fellow since 2001. Prof. Laflamme holds the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information, and is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. Prof. Laflamme’s group holds the world record for the largest number of quantum bits manipulated using universal control.

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2022-23
Please check back regularly
for any amendments that may occur.

First Semester
Sept. 6 – December 16   2022

Sept. 6 (TUESDAY)               First Day of First Semester
Oct. 10 (Monday)                   Columbus Day Holiday
Nov. 21 – 25                           Fall Break (and Thanksgiving)
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Jan. 16  (Monday)                  Dr. Martin L. King Holiday
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The Gift of Single-mindedness / Our Dragonflies are Grateful for the Pesticide Free Campus

Getting children to think is easy,
If you think about it.
But don’t think too much.

“Do everything in moderation,
including moderation.” 
– Benjamin Franklin
Inventor of many things, including
The United States of America

Moderation is the best advise
I have encountered.
The violation of this admonition
Is why a few of us
Are driving a Tesla.
This poor man,
Who changed the way the whole world lives,
Did not heed this gentle warning.

     Emerson

“The sanity of society
is a balance of a thousand insanities.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nikola Tesla, according to Life Magazine’s
Special issue of September, 1997,
Is among the 100 most famous people
Of the last 1,000 years.
He did not become insane,
As we may be able to define it,
At the end of his life,
For he was like that his entire life.
The line between insanity and genius
Is thin
And often does not exist.

“There is no great genius
without some touch of madness.“
                       – Seneca

This assumption is reasonable within
The levels of intelligence he demonstrated.
Thinking far too much
Contributed to his lonely, withdrawn existence.
He died without ever getting married
Or having the joy of children
To drive him insane.
read more

 “When we remember that we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear
and life stands explained.”
– Mark Twain

NIKOLA TESLA

WE ARE OF SINGLE MIND

My friends,
The awareness of
Our ability, or disability,
As some may view it,
To think of one,
And ONLY one,
Thing at a time,
Can become a gift of Life.

But this phenomenon can become
A deadly exercise in poor judgement,
If you think you can text while driving.
Not fully knowing that the human brain
Simply switches rapidly back and forth
From one thought to another,
Has cost much needless suffering
And many lives.

You, and I, are capable of thinking
About only ONE thing at a time.
Research (read more) has proven this
Time after time.
Oh, there are exceptions,
Very few,
But these exceptions are not me,
And they are not you.

 The myth of multitasking has never been stronger.
But researchers prove it is a myth
And they have the data to prove it.

As we discussed in my class in
Philosophy, The Art of Wondering,
Humans don’t do things simultaneously.
Instead, we switch our attention from task to task
Extremely fast,
Or, if you are like me,
A little slower.

And, if you are like me,
Drink another fruit smoothie
And think only about
Getting the very last drop.
Staring into the bottom of the cup
Is a deep enough thought,
When you stop thinking about it.
For those of you who referred to me
As an old smoothie,
You were about 40% right.
The rest is made up of water
Three brain cells
And one nerve ending.
I keep asking my students
Not to step on that.

“In order to act,
you must be somewhat insane.
A reasonably sensible man
is satisfied with thinking.”
– Georges Clemenceau

According to Meyer, Evans and Rubinstein,
“Multitasking may seem efficient on the surface
But may actually take more time in the end
And involves more error.
Mental blocks created by shifting between tasks
Can cost as much as 40 percent of
Someone’s productive time.”
(This explains texting and auto accidents.)
read more

“The brain is very good
at deluding itself.”
– neuroscientist Earl Miller

But there is unbelievable beauty
In our awareness
Of ourselves.

This inability (to multitask)
Like so very, very many things,
Should be recognized as a Gift,
A singular ability,
A Blessing,
If you think about it,
But not too much.
Remember, moderation in everything
Including moderation.

But what exactly does that mean?
What is a moderate, moderate.
I think we keep looking for that being
To elect to public office –
A moderate, moderate.
But since I do not know
What this is,
I do not know
Who this is
To vote for.

 We humans may eventually evolve
Into beings that can think
More than ONE thought
At a time,
Perhaps, even thinking about
EVERYTHING at once,
Much like the quantum computers
We are now creating.
(read more here to blow your mind out of calm waters)

Such a God like quality
May bring us
“Nearer My God to Thee”,
But so far,
Our single-mindedness has brought us
The internet,
Fruit smoothies (Thank you Lord!) and
The Atomic Bomb.

I Pray
That enabling even more capability,
Doesn’t also blow up
In our hands.

But my dear Friends,
Hidden very deep within the folds
Of our SINGULAR ability
To think one thought at a time,
Lies a secret to a happy life.
Knowing that you can think about
One, and only ONE thing
At a time
Is a truly precious insight.

It is your awareness
Of this
That is of value,
Not the knowing itself,
Not the thing you know you can
Or cannot do.

Hang in there.
I am swimming to
The shallow end of the pool,
Running out of air,
Breathing deep and
Taking in more water.
This is where more children my age go
To have fun.

Knowing that your mind can harbor
Only ONE thought at a time –
Being fully aware of this –
Can place you in control
Of the next moment,
The next hour,
In control of your life.

If in THIS moment
You are sad, regretful or depressed,
Quickly,
Do something else,
Something you may call distracting,
That you know would not be unpleasant, painful,
Something that would be, in fact, pleasurable,
Anything, including just jumping into the pool.
Hey, try it with all your clothes on –
Then you’ll have something to remember!
That will really take your mind off your miseries.
You will laugh so hard
You may not be able to get out of the pool
By yourself, without help.
So, pull the helper
Into the water with you!
That will make your day,
And his.

Life need NOT
Be uneventful.

I pushed my sweet LeVonna
Into a swimming pool fully clothed.
She never strolled by another pool
Standing close to me again.
It still makes my day
Just thinking about it.

Are you getting the picture yet?
Hey, (west Texan for, Hey)
You can be fully in control
Of this moment,
Of your mind,
Of your mood.

By the way,
Pushing her into the pool
Was the last moment
I felt any kind of control of her.
What boggles my mind is,
She then said “Yes”,
And were married shortly thereafter.
Crazy pays.

Try other distracting things:
To putting on a favorite movie,
To calling a good friend
(that’s what they are for, silly),
To taking a nice, warm (or ice cold) bath,
To opening a really good book,
To cuddling with the dog or cat,
To saying something funny,
Or preparing something great to eat
Or eating that great something,
Or shopping
(great therapy, just ask the Ladies)
Or best yet:
Totally immersing yourself in
Helping someone else in need.

You get the idea.

You are in charge, in control
In command of the very next moment,
The next hour
The rest of the beautiful day,
A beautiful Life.
You are so singular in your ability
To think,
That you have nothing more
To be responsible for
Than the next thought
About the next moment.

WE cannot think two thoughts
At the same moment,
(Thank you Lord),
So take control of the only thing
You need to control
Or can control.
And keep on controlling.

Remember,
You simply cannot worry
About tomorrow
While you are on a high speed roller coaster,
(Isn’t that right, Ian?)
In a hot air balloon,
Or full of hot air, like me,
Or right after
You were stung by a honey bee
(It happens when your trying to help them.
We house these beautiful creations
behind our house.)

Life, my friend,
Is a SERIES
Of small pleasures,
Distractions,
Moments
YOU make.

So stay in motion.

Make every “momentous” decision
One for Joy.
Don’t leave room in your mind,
Or your precious Heart,
For even one second of sadness.
God has empowered you
To think,
To do,
To act,
And to Love life.
He Loved you enough
To give you Life.
And He will Love you
Long after.

Yes,
God has empowered you
To Love your life,
To Love every person you meet,
To Love every turtle crossing the street
(they are now ALL endangered species),
Every cricket keeping you awake,
Every river you cross,
Every thought
That flows into the Eternal Sea.

Never stop acting,
Deciding, moving your mind
To do the things that
Bring joy into life.
It is
Your decision.
And it always has been,
And always will be.

Get out of your chair,
Kick open the front door,
And run –
Toward anything or anyone
That has ever made you happy,
That will bring you pure Joy
Again and again and again.

Life,
Is a SERIES
Of small pleasures.

My dear friends,
It is no longer necessary
For you to be unhappy,
To live without Joy
In your life.

Being aware
Of the Love of God
For you,
Of your awareness of life,
It’s limitations,
It’s opportunities
And your ability to
Command the next moment of
Your presence on this Beautiful Earth,
Can free your mind,
And your precious Heart,
From all fear,
Despair, boredom
And hopelessness.

Take time
To contemplate
The rare beauty of your existence,
Of this awesome moment,
That is the true Treasure
Of your brief time.

Capture the next moment in time
Take command of what you do,
And then, share your story.
So many others need help along the way.

My Precious Friend,
You are Morning,
Before Tomorrow comes the night,
And Blessed are the moments
In which you take the time
To sing your song,
To Blossom in God’s Spring,
To bring warmth to Hearts in need,
And feel the Sacred Rain,
That ever so gently falls
In tears,
From all the Joy
You bring.

May the Joy of our Lord
Always abide
In your
Very Precious Heart.

Our school has a large number of
Beautiful Dragon Flies.
In twenty years
I have never been bitten by a mosquito at school.
I don’t know of any other place
Where one can make the same claim.

Dragonflies also feed on other insects like flies.
Once hatched, the larva of the Dragonfly
Becomes an aquatic predator,
Feeding on other aquatic insects,
Including mosquito eggs and larvae.
The mosquito is the deadliest
Creature on planet Earth.
They are the deadliest,
because they spread so much disease.
Mosquitoes are responsible
For the deaths of many hundreds of thousands
Of people every year.
Estimates are difficult to come by.

Maintaining a pesticide free environment
Pays huge dividends.
Not only for the safety of our precious children,
But for so many of God’s other
Stunningly beautiful Creations.
And since Humans are
The number two killer on the planet,
I recommend
Hate Free Environments.
Now there’s an idea
Worth thinking about.
But we haven’t thought about that much,
Have we?

if you are installing a bug zapper to fight mosquitoes,
And have a Dragonfly population,
Turn it off.
It zaps the beautiful dragonflies, too.

My precious Rosie shared countless small moments of pure joy with me for 18 years and one month. She still resides deeply embedded in my heart. Life, is a SERIES Of small pleasures. And I cannot count the number she gave to me. Sometimes, the greatest Gifts are very small indeed. God Blesses us in ways we are not always fully aware of.