In Union with the Divine / Cancer’s Newest Miracle Cure / School Calendar.

To be able to feel
our Spirit take flight,
is so
Beautiful.

Toss your Love
into the wind,
and listen,
as Life echoes
off the Canyons of
Existence.The Love
in your Heart
can rise in Union
with the Divine.

You are
the most Beautiful Creation
of our Lord.
Your Beauty
transcends definition.

The Love
that Created You,
Lives beyond
any
given line in Time.You
can become a Joy
to everyone fortunate enough
to know you.

My Dear Friends,
sometimes those who seem the
Happiest,
are struggling with unbelievable sadness
inside.

The grief
we can be in sufferance of,
can be overwhelming.
.
But,
our Faith
can be our source of
strength.

Dwell
in the quiet spaces
between
your thoughts,
and leave the sadness
all behind.
.
The cherished memories we create
in Life,
can wipe away our tears.

Our Beautiful Moments
will completely enhance
our Spiritual Awareness.

Simplicity
of thought and deed,
 makes Life and Living
so much better.
.
Think
of slowly walking down a country path,
where there are
plenty of Trees,
and grass
leaves.

It is so Beautiful.
and powerful
and in Peace,
 and can make you 
feel
the Presence of the Lord.

It is amazing
how Faith can take you
to Places in the Heart.

Experience
Bliss and Serenity 
when you relax and flow with
the Beautiful sights and sounds
of God’s Natural World.

Yes.
It is where we belong.
It is our real
Home.
.
God will Bless
ALL
our Wonderful Lives.
His Love
is beyond Magical.
.
The Love of God
is Therapy for the Soul,
Medicine for the mind.

Escape
into Dreams 
that bring so much Joy
and give us Hope
that Life always has
something
waiting for us to discover
over the Rainbow.

Find yourself,
and your true potential,
deep
inside of you.

“Your mind will answer most questions
if you learn to relax
and wait for the answer.”
– William S. Burroughs

No amount
of anger or frustration
can undo the past.
Shouting
into the darkness,
you will hear the echo
of your own voice.
There will be
no answers,
just silence.
.
You
will be a better person
for having Loved enough
to Forgive.
.
Love
is never forgotten.
Love
is all there is.

“You have to keep breaking your Heart,
until it opens”
– Rumi

Be
the Light
this World needs.
Love
is the purest form of energy,
and the Ultimate Reality.

“If you really are Thankful,
what do you do?
You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

There is such power and strength
in Compassion.

Your precious Time
on Earth
can become all the more rewarding. 
.
Be ready
for the next level of Existence.
Allow
your Faith to be strong and unshakeable.

Each
moment of Life
is special and
Divine.
.
Life
is precarious.
Bittersweet
is the Life
that knows not,
it is Divine.

“Walking with a friend in the dark
is better than walking alone
in the light.”
– Helen Keller

Hell
can be
your own creation.

For hell
on Earth
can be our own construct.
.
Forever
seek the Light of Hope
to find the Path.
.
Your search for
Love,
is a Testament to the enduring
Spirit of Humanity,
and the boundless Inspiration
that Love can bring
into our Lives.

Goodnight.Cancer’s Newest Miracle Cure

Kaitlyn Johnson, 7, was diagnosed with leukemia but is in remission after receiving a new genetic and immune therapy.

Brent Humphreys for TIME

By Alice Park

With the usual mix of anticipation and apprehension, Kaitlyn Johnson is getting ready to go to her first summer camp. She’s looking forward to meeting new friends and being able to ride horses, swim and host tea parties. She’s also a little nervous and a little scared, like any 7-year-old facing her first sleepaway camp.

But the wonder is that Kaitlyn is leaving the house for anything but a medical facility. Diagnosed with leukemia when she was 18 months old, her life has been consumed with cancer treatments, doctors’ visits and hospital stays.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancer among young children, accounting for a quarter of all cancer cases in kids, and it has no cure. For about 85% to 90% of children, the leukemia can, however, be effectively treated through chemotherapy.

If it is not eliminated and comes back, it is, more often than not, fatal. Rounds of chemotherapy can buy patients time, but as the disease progresses, the periods of remission get shorter and shorter. “The options for these patients are not very good at all,” says Dr. Theodore Laetsch, a pediatrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

When Kaitlyn’s cancer wasn’t controlled after three years and round after round of chemotherapy drugs, her doctors had little else to offer. “They said, ‘This did nothing, it didn’t touch it,’” says Kaitlyn’s mother Mandy, a dental assistant from Royce City, Texas. “My stomach just dropped.” Kaitlyn could receive a bone-marrow transplant, but only about half of those procedures are successful, and there was a good chance that she would reject the donor cells. If that happened, her chances of surviving were very small.

In a calculated gamble, her doctors suggested a radical new option: becoming a test subject in a trial of an experimental therapy that would, for the first time, use gene therapy to train a patient’s immune system to recognize and destroy their cancer in the same way it dispatches bacteria and viruses. The strategy is the latest development in immunotherapy, a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment that uses a series of precision strikes to disintegrate cancer from within the body itself.

Joining the trial was risky, since other attempts to activate the immune system hadn’t really worked in the past. Mandy, her husband James and Kaitlyn traveled from their home in Texas to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where they stayed in a hotel for eight weeks while Kaitlyn received the therapy and recovered. “The thought crossed my mind that Kaitlyn might not come home again,” says Mandy. “I couldn’t tell you how many times I would be in the bathroom at the hospital, spending an hour in the shower just crying, thinking, What are we going to do if this doesn’t help her?”

Kaitlyn at age 5, after receiving her own genetically modified immune cells

Courtesy Johnson Family

But it did. After receiving the therapy in 2015, the cancer cells in Kaitlyn’s body melted away. Test after test, including one that picks up one cancer cell in a million, still can’t detect any malignant cells lurking in Kaitlyn’s blood. What saved Kaitlyn was an infusion of her own immune cells that were genetically modified to destroy her leukemia. “You take someone who essentially has no possibility for a cure – almost every single one of these patients dies – and with [this] therapy, 90% go into remission,” says Dr. David Porter, director of blood and bone-marrow transplantation at the University of Pennsylvania. Such radical immune-based approaches were launched in 2011 with the success of intravenous drugs that loosen the brakes on the immune system so it can see cancer cells and destroy them with the same vigor with which they attack bacteria and viruses.

Now, with the genetically engineered immune cells known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that were used in Kaitlyn’s study, doctors are crippling cancer in more precise and targeted ways than surgery, chemotherapy and radiation ever could. While the first cancer immunotherapies were broadly aimed at any cancer, experts are now repurposing the immune system into a personalized precision treatment that can not only recognize but also eliminate the cancer cells unique to each individual patient.

What makes immune-based therapies like CAR T cell therapy so promising–and so powerful – is that they are a living drug churned out by the patients themselves. The treatment isn’t a pill or a liquid that has to be taken regularly, but a one-hit wonder that, when given a single time, trains the body to keep on treating, ideally for a lifetime.

“This therapy is utterly transformative for this kind of leukemia and also lymphoma,” says Stephan Grupp, director of the cancer immunotherapy program at CHOP and one of the lead doctors treating patients in the study in which Kaitlyn participated.

Eager to bring this groundbreaking option to more patients, including those with other types of cancers, an advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously in July to move the therapy beyond the testing phase, during which several hundred people have been able to take advantage of it, to become a standard therapy for children with certain leukemias if all other treatments have failed. While the FDA isn’t obligated to follow the panel’s advice, it often does, and it is expected to announce its decision in a matter of weeks.

Across the country, doctors are racing to enroll people with other cancers – breast, prostate, pancreatic, ovarian, sarcoma and brain, including the kind diagnosed in Senator John McCain – in hundreds of trials to see if they, too, will benefit from this novel approach. They are even cautiously allowing themselves to entertain the idea that this living drug may even lead to a cure for some of these patients. Curing cancers, rather than treating them, would result in a significant drop in the more than $120 billion currently spent each year on cancer care in the U.S., as well as untold suffering.

Lon Tweeten for TIME

This revolutionary therapy, however, almost didn’t happen. While the idea of using the body’s immune cells against cancer has been around for a long time, the practical reality had proved daunting. Unlike infection – causing bacteria and viruses that are distinctly foreign to the body, cancer cells start out as healthy cells that mutate and grow out of control, and the immune system is loath to target its own cells.

“Only a handful of people were doing the research,” says Dr. Carl June, director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center and the scientist who pioneered the therapy. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, June is all too familiar with the devastating effects of cancer, having lost his first wife to ovarian cancer and battled skin cancer himself. Trial after trial failed as reinfusions of immune cells turned out to be more of a hit-or-miss endeavor than a reliable road to remission.

After spending nearly three decades on the problem, June zeroed in on a malignant fingerprint that could be exploited to stack the deck of a cancer patient’s immune system with the right destructive cells to destroy the cancer.

In the case of leukemias, that marker turned out to be CD19, a protein that all cancerous blood cells sprout on their surface. June repurposed immune cells to carry a protein that would stick to CD19, along with another marker that would activate the immune cells to start attacking the cancer more aggressively once they found their malignant marks. Using a design initially developed by researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for such a combination, June and his colleague Bruce Levine perfected a way to genetically modify and grow these cancer-fighting cells in abundance in the lab and to test them in animals with leukemia. The resulting immune platoon of CAR T cells is uniquely equipped to ferret out and destroy cancer cells. But getting them into patients is a complex process. Doctors first remove a patient’s immune cells from the blood, genetically tweak them in the lab to carry June’s cancer-targeting combination and then infuse the modified cells back into the patient using an IV.

Because these repurposed immune cells continue to survive and divide, the therapy continues to work for months, years and, doctors hope, perhaps a lifetime. Similar to the way vaccines prompt the body to produce immune cells that can provide lifelong protection against viruses and bacteria, CAR T cell therapy could be a way to immunize against cancer. “The word vaccination would not be inappropriate,” says Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

June’s therapy worked surprisingly well in mice, shrinking tumors and, in some cases, eliminating them altogether. He applied for a grant at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to study the therapy in people from 2010 to 2011. But the idea was still so new that many scientists believed that testing it in people was too risky. In 1999, a teenager died days after receiving an experimental dose of genes to correct an inherited disorder, and anything involving gene therapy was viewed suspiciously. While such deaths aren’t entirely unusual in experimental studies, there were ethical questions about whether the teenager and his family were adequately informed of the risks and concerns that the doctor in charge of the study had a financial conflict of interest in seeing the therapy develop. Officials in charge of the program acknowledged that important questions were raised by the trial and said they took the questions and concerns very seriously. But the entire gene-therapy program was shut down. All of that occurred at the University of Pennsylvania – where June was. His grant application was rejected.

It would take two more years before private funders – the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and an alumnus of the university who was eager to support new cancer treatments – donated $5 million to give June the chance to bring his therapy to the first human patients.

Bill Ludwig with his prized RV

Amy Lombard for TIME

The date July 31 has always been a milestone for Bill Ludwig, a retired corrections officer in New Jersey. It’s the day that he joined the Marines as an 18-year-old, and the day, 30 years later, that he married his wife Darla.

It was also the day he went to the hospital to become the first person ever to receive the combination gene and CAR T cell therapy, in 2010. For Ludwig, the experimental therapy was his only remaining option. Like many people with leukemia, Ludwig had been living on borrowed time for a decade, counting the days between the chemotherapy treatments that would hold the cancer in his blood cells at bay for a time. Inevitably, like weeds in an untended garden, the leukemia cells would grow and take over his blood system again.

But the periods of reprieve were getting dangerously short. “I was running out of treatments,” says Ludwig. So when his doctor mentioned the trial conducted by June and Porter at the University of Pennsylvania, he didn’t hesitate. “I never thought that the clinical trial was going to cure me,” he says. “I just wanted to live and to continue to fight. If there was something that would put me into the next month, still breathing, then that’s what I was looking for.”

When Ludwig signed the consent form for the treatment, he wasn’t even told what to expect in terms of side effects or adverse reactions. The scientists had no way of predicting what would happen. “They explained that I was the first and that they obviously had no case law, so to speak,” he says. So when he was hit with a severe fever, had difficulty breathing, showed signs of kidney failure and was admitted to the intensive care unit, he assumed that the treatment wasn’t working.

His condition deteriorated so quickly and so intensely that doctors told him to call his family to his bedside, just four days after he received the modified cells. “I told my family I loved them and that I knew why they were there,” he says. “I had already gone and had a cemetery plot, and already paid for my funeral.”

Rather than signaling the end, Ludwig’s severe illness turned out to be evidence that the immune cells he received were furiously at work, eliminating and sweeping away the huge burden of cancer cells choking up his bloodstream. But his doctors did not realize it at the time.

It wasn’t until the second patient, Doug Olson, who received his CAR T cells about six weeks after Ludwig, that Porter had a eureka moment. When he received the call that Olson was also running a high fever, having trouble breathing and showing abnormal lab results, Porter realized that these were signs that the treatment was working. “It happens when you kill huge amounts of cancer cells all at the same time,” Porter says. What threw him off initially is that it’s rare for anything to wipe out that much cancer in people with Ludwig’s and Olson’s disease. June and Porter have since calculated that the T cells obliterated anywhere from 2.5 lb. to 7 lb. of cancer in Ludwig’s and Olson’s bodies. “I couldn’t fathom that this is why they both were so sick,” says Porter. “But I realized this is the cells: they were working, and working rapidly. It was not something we see with chemotherapy or anything else we have to treat this cancer.”

Ludwig receiving the revolutionary CAR T cell therapy in 2010

Courtesy Bill Ludwig

Ludwig has now been in remission for seven years, and his success led to the larger study of CAR T cell therapy in children like Kaitlyn, who no longer respond to existing treatments for their cancer. The only side effect Ludwig has is a weakened immune system; because the treatment wipes out a category of his immune cells – the ones that turned cancerous – he returns to the University of Pennsylvania every seven weeks for an infusion of immunoglobulins to protect him from pneumonia and colds. Olson, too, is still cancer – free.

While the number of people who have received CAR T cell therapy is still small, the majority are in remission. That’s especially encouraging for children, whose lives are permanently disrupted by the repeated cycles of treatments that currently are their only option. “It’s a chance for these kids to have a normal life and a normal childhood that doesn’t involve constant infusions, transfusions, infections and being away from their home, family and school,” says Dr. Gwen Nichols, chief medical officer of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

The hope is that while CAR T cell therapy will at first be reserved for people who have failed to respond to all standard treatments, eventually they won’t have to wait that long. As doctors learn from pioneers like Kaitlyn, Ludwig and Olson, they will have more confidence in pushing the therapy earlier, when patients are stronger and the cancer is less advanced–perhaps as a replacement for or in combination with other treatments.

The severe immune reaction triggered by the therapy remains a big concern. While it can be monitored in the hospital and managed with steroids or antibodies that fight inflammation, there have been deaths in other trials involving CAR T cells. One drug company put one of its studies on hold due to the toxic side effects. “I am excited by CAR T therapy, but I’m also worried that some people might get too excited,” says the American Cancer Society’s Brawley. “It’s important that we proceed slowly and do this meticulously so that we develop this in the right way.”

For now, CAR T cells are expensive – some analysts estimate that each patient’s batch of cells would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars – because they require a bespoke production process. If approved, Novartis, which licensed the technology from the University of Pennsylvania, will provide the therapy in about 35 cancer centers in the U.S. by the end of the year. Other companies are already working toward universal T cells that could be created for off-the-shelf use in any patient with cancer. “This is just the beginning,” says June.

Since Ludwig’s cancer has been in remission, he and his wife have packed their RV and taken the vacations they missed while he was a slave to his cancer and chemotherapy schedule. This year, they’re visiting Mount Rushmore, Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park before taking their granddaughter to Disney World in the fall. “When they told me I was cancer-free, it was just like someone said, ‘You won the lottery,’” he says. “If somebody else with this disease has the chance to walk in my shoes and live past it, that would be the greatest gift for me.”

© 2023 TIME USA, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

 

 

Knowledge is power
and LIFE.

School Calendar

2023-24
Please check back regularly
for any amendments that may occur.

First Semester
Sept. 5 – December 22   2023

Sept. 5 (TUESDAY)               First Day of First Semester
Oct. 9 (Monday)                    Columbus Day Holiday
Nov. 20 – 24                           Fall Break (and Thanksgiving)
Dec. 22                                   Last Day of Fall Semester

Second Semester

Jan. 9 (TUESDAY)                 Second Semester Begins
Jan. 15  (Monday)                  Dr. Martin L. King Holiday
Feb. 20  (Monday)                  Presidents’ Day Holiday
Mar. 11 – 15                           Spring Break Holiday
March 29 & April1                  Good Friday and Easter Monday Holidays
May 24                                    Last Day of Spring Semester

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles

are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer
– Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2023
The Anderson Private School.

“He who opens a school door,
closes a prison.“
– Victor Hugo

I wish you all
 Peace.

Hang on
to your Faith.
You will get there.

 

The most Precious Gift
is Life.

 

Love
is
Life.

You
are Forever in my
Heart.

 

You Can Truly Navigate Space and Time / Rest in The Arms of Love / School Calendar

You
can Truly navigate
Space and Time.

I am amazed 
at the Beauty
of everything in God’s
Universe.
.
I remain in awe
of the Freedom to interpret
what we mere Mortals
are given.

 So Much Love
and so much Truth.
.
Close your mind.
Open your Heart.
.
The Light you see
is your own Light,
your own Love,
your own Beauty. GOD

is going to put a new Song
in your Heart.
Our Lord
will Amaze you with His
Love.
.
Your Prayers
will
be answered.

Each of us have
Dreams.
But so often
we do not have the
Faith
to achieve our Dreams.

 You
have the potential to become
what you want to be.
.
To become your Dreams,
close your eyes,
breathe deeply
and exhale slowly
to Truly relax.

  The Light of
Love
is the Source of all strength and energy
that exists in the Universe.
This Light
fills each of us
and penetrates all of our cells,
giving us strength.
.
There are many Blessings
in Life.
And we need
to accept their reality. Our Beautiful World
works in our favor
to help us achieve our goals.
As we come to Believe
in our own potential,
all the barriers to success
collapse in front of us.
.
Prayerful Living
seamlessly weaves together
stunning solutions to our daily problems.
And
it is accompanied by soothing
feelings.A Life
filled with Prayer,
becomes a True Work of Art
that transports you to a Realm
of calmness and serenity.
Every Blessed Day
 becomes meticulously crafted
to evoke a sense of Tranquility
and Inner Peace.

We become Grateful
to our Creator
for providing us with an exquisite Life
free from the stresses of
mere existence..You come to the
realization
that You
can Truly navigate
Space and Time.

Love
gives meaning to this World
of ours.

With Love
we are able to pour such wonderful emotions
into our dismal existence.
Love gives us Hope
and purpose. God uses us
to paint a Picture
of what can be,
what will be.

Our Precious Lord
intended that our World
and our Life
should be Blessed.

Goodnight.Rest in The Arms of Love

Personal Growth

Meditation

Love

Emotional Healing

Mind-Body Health

Healing

Roger Gabriel

November 14, 2022 03:00 AM

There is a candle in your Heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your Soul,
ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? You feel the separation from the Beloved.
Invite It to fill you up, embrace the fire. Remind those who tell you otherwise,
that Love comes to you of its own accord, and the yearning for it cannot be learned in any school. – Rumi

Who you are is love. Love is the essence of all life. It is both delicate and strong. From the pain of separation, it brings the joy of union, it heals a wounded soul, it dissolves all fear and awakens our sleeping heart.

Before time there was only the silence of infinite potential, floating in a sea of pure love. Pure love decided to play and from that joyous bliss filled impulse, the whole of creation emerged. You, me, every human, every animal, bird, fish, insect, flower and tree are manifestations of pure love. The wind, the rain and sun, the moon and stars are all reflections of that one pure love. There is nothing that exists whose essence isn’t pure love. From the moment of our birth, love is always speaking to us, guiding us but we have to listen carefully as attested by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff when she said “God spoke to me today in flowers and I, who was waiting for words, almost missed it.” Look for love everywhere and in everything. When we bring love into all aspects of our life, relationships, work, recreation, and spiritual practices, we cannot help but be self-loving.

The Dwelling Space of Unconditional Love

It is said that at the beginning of creation, God wondered where to put pure unconditional love. It was too precious to just leave anywhere and needed to be placed carefully. Some of the angels suggested hiding it in the deepest oceans, others said in the distant stars. But God said no, we’ll hide it in the heart of every human, only true seekers will look for it there.
.
This story is echoed in the great Chandogya Upanishad when it talks about a secret dwelling in the lotus of the heart. Within this dwelling is a space, far greater than the infinite space of the universe, because this space contains the fulfillment of all our desires. It says that both heaven and earth are contained in that inner space, both fire and air, sun and moon, lightning and stars, in fact everything is contained in that inner space. This is called the city of Brahman, this is the True Self, free from old age, free from death and grief, hunger and thirst. This is where all desires are fulfilled. This is the home of pure unconditional love, alive in every one of us.

Many books have been authored on love, movies have been made and here I am writing an article about it, but the mystery and beauty of love can never be fully described, it has to be experienced by Being in Love.
.
The Persian poet Hafiz touched on this when he wrote “Let us be like two falling stars in the day sky. Let no one know of our sublime beauty as we hold hands with God and burn into a scared existence that defies, that surpasses every description of ecstasy and love.”

Pure love is an ecstatic state far beyond the sentimental love usually found in those books and movies, a state of Being that reveals itself in answer to our longing. Our spiritual journey is to take us deep within, back beyond all distractions to rediscover our essence. The good news is that we are already pure love, the bad news is that we’ve forgotten it and have allowed our true self to be hidden beneath layers of fear, doubt, sadness and confusion. Our journey is to peel away these layers so we can recognize, and fall madly in love, with our Self once again.

Learn to Start with Self-Love

It’s important that we don’t confuse self-love with egotistical, vanity and selfishness. Self-love begins with an appreciation for one’s own happiness, self-worth, and wellbeing but grows into a love of all creation. So, where do we start? To love anyone or anything, we have to start by loving ourselves. It’s easy to love your body when it’s strong and healthy but what about when it’s tired or sick. This is when it needs love the most.

Do you often grumble when you look in the mirror? Embrace your weaknesses, accept what you don’t like about yourself, enjoy your ambiguity. Stop comparing yourself to others or getting overly concerned with their opinions. Allow yourself to make mistakes once in a while but trust yourself to make good decisions. Self-improvement is an ongoing process but first starts by practicing self-acceptance. Face your fears, true love lacks nothing and is always here to support you. Drop the conditioning, let go of the stories of how things are supposed to be. They don’t have to be anything and, realizing this, welcomes the joy that awaits you. As the Sufi poet Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love but merely to find and remove all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

As you begin to dissolve those barriers, ask your heart for whatever gifts you want from love in your life. If you have challenges, ask love for help and be open to receive its bounty. Remember, true love can never hurt you, it’s only the unloving things that hurt.

Expand Self-Love Outward

Then expand self-love to love of all. Pause for a moment and be aware of your heart center. Ask it how can you be more loving, what limitations do I need to release? Love holds no grievances, ask your heart to help you to forgive. The true self can never be hurt, only the self-image holds the grudges. Forgiveness allows you to truly love yourself. Drop all the stories you and others may have created about you and be yourSelf. Ask:

• How can I better serve those around me?
• What unique talents do I have to offer the world?
• How can I share kindness and compassion unconditionally?

Activate the qualities of your heart. Silently repeat each of the following words a few times, your eyes can be open or closed, as is comfortable.

• Peace
• Harmony
• Joy
• Compassion
• Kindness
• Love

Allow these qualities to expand throughout your body. Let them fill your thoughts and emotions. Surround yourself with a halo of love and radiate it out to the world. Filling yourself with these qualities both acts like a protective shield while at the same time blessing all those around you. You can repeat these qualities and any others you may wish to add, any time during the day when you feel the need for the support of love.

True love, like silence cannot be created but, when we allow ourselves to slip beyond all the noise, confusion and all that we are not, we will discover the silent magnificence of pure love waiting to embrace us. When we surrender everything to love and for love, we will rest deep in the arms of love. Nourished, nurtured, safe and secure, finally home.

Let’s finish with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who expressed it perfectly with, “Love shall forever shine on our way and the light will guide our steps, whether we go slow or fast. The light of love shall forever be with us on our way. Love shall forever be the anchor of life. We shall be in love and love shall be in us. We shall live in love, shall grow in love and shall find fulfillment in love eternal.”

Explore self-love and learn to honor all aspects of yourself to discover the infinite source of love within, in Journey to Well-being: Self-Love, a four-part series with Dr. Sheila Patel, available now in the Chopra App.

 

Knowledge is power
and LIFE.

School Calendar

2023-24
Please check back regularly
for any amendments that may occur.

First Semester
Sept. 5 – December 22   2023

Sept. 5 (TUESDAY)               First Day of First Semester
Oct. 9 (Monday)                     Columbus Day Holiday
Nov. 20 – 24                           Fall Break (and Thanksgiving)
Dec. 22                                   Last Day of Fall Semester

Second Semester

Jan. 9 (TUESDAY)                 Second Semester Begins
Jan. 15  (Monday)                  Dr. Martin L. King Holiday
Feb. 20  (Monday)                  Presidents’ Day Holiday
Mar. 11 – 15                           Spring Break Holiday
March 29 & April1                  Good Friday and Easter Monday Holidays
May 24                                    Last Day of Spring Semester

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles

are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer
– Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2023
The Anderson Private School.

“He who opens a school door,
closes a prison.“
– Victor Hugo

I wish you all
 Peace.

Hang on
to your Faith.
You will get there.

The most Precious Gift
is Life.

 

Love
is
Life.

You
are Forever in my
Heart.

.

Truly A Blessing / Charlie Chaplin / A Soothing Balm for Troubled Emotions / School Calendar

“Why
are you so afraid
of silence,
silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void
a hundred voices will thunder messages
you long to hear.”
– Rumi

Life
can have new meaning
when we realize the Wonder
that is Creation,
and the Beauty that is found
all around
and within us.
.
It helps
when we take the Time for reflection
and give Thanks to God
for such Immeasurable Love.

There is Magic
is this moment.

All we need do
is close our eyes
and Pray,
and we are transported to a Magical Place
where there is no anxiety,
worry, strife, or stress.

The mind can become restless
and turbulent.
It may be more difficult to control
than the wind.

But we can
sooth and fulfill
our troubled minds
and aching Hearts.

What we have
in our Hearts,
and in our Sacred Souls,
must
find a way out.
The fact that you have been Created
and are so very Beautiful 
is Truly a Blessing.
There is nothing
on Earth
more Beautiful
than a Child
of God.

And this World
is more Beautiful,
if we live together
in Peace.

Yes,
we may reminded of the
Beauty of this World
that we are so abundantly
Blessed with.

We need
but close our eyes
and listen and Pray,
and we are transported to
the World of our inner Being –
as the Birds sing such Beautiful songs
and the Flowers of calming thoughts Blossom,
and the colorful leaves from the Beautiful Trees
fall down like a snowflakes.
We can listen to hear the Peaceful music
of the Wind
as it starts to sing a lonesome lullaby,
gently flowing
through the Trees
and through our Minds.

And suddenly,
awareness Dawns
like a bright new day.
Life
with Love in our Hearts,
is a Peaceful Dream,
and the Dawn
of a new Day.

The hue of colors
illuminating our awareness
warms the Heart.

What an amazing moment.
What a precious Blessing,
to suddenly realize that
you
are a Precious Gift to the World,
because
you are you.
.
If you
failed to see you,
  it wasn’t because you couldn’t be seen.
You
simply failed
to close your eyes,
so that you could see
the Light
in your Heart.

Yes,
you are a precious
GIFT
to the World.

My Dear Friends,
One step
leads to a long Journey.
One note leads to a Beautiful Song –
a Beautiful Harmony we can all sing along.
One day leads to one night,
one darkness to Light.
Everyone is Loved 
from the depths 
of someone’s Heart.

If
we but listen
and reflect,
we can know
that Time really is
Love.

Time
is a Gift
from Above.

Love yourself.
Embrace yourself
and be your very best friend.
If
you were born without wings,
do nothing to prevent them from growing.
The Spirit
of your Heart
can fly.

Life
should read like a fairy tale book.
Only the Beautiful and Magical
here and there,
with a lot of Dreaming in between.
This 
is communicated from our
Nature
and Natural Consciousness.

Share
your amazing Life
and Love
with this stressed out and distressed World. 
YOU
make a big difference in the Hearts
and minds and Souls
of others.

The calming Music
of Meditation,
is like a windbreaker.

It enables you
to fall in Love
with your Natural Self,
and with Nature
so Beautifully Created
all around you.
You
can feel every cell of your Body.
You can be reborn
here,
in this Moment.

Nature and Music
are two of the most soothing and fulfilling things
for the Soul.
They are truly
Blessings.
They can lift up
your Spirit.

 The mood of your
Life
will match the mood
of the Music.
Sweet and harmonious sounds
are what your Heart
desires,
what your Heart
needs.

God is everywhere.
  Be glad
the World is filled
with so much Beauty and Wonder.
Blessings abound
because
God Loves you.

Let
the Word of God
and His Blessings
renew you Life.

Goodnight.

Charlie Chaplin
lived for 88 years.
And,
he left us with these Philosophical Observations:

1. Nothing is forever in this World,
not even our problems.

2. I Love walking in the rain
because no one can see my tears.

3. The most lost day in Life
is
the day we don’t laugh.

4. The six best Doctors in the World are
1. The sun
2. Rest
3. Exercise
4. Diet
5. Self-respect
6. Friends.

Stick to them
at all stages of your Life
and enjoy a healthy Life.
If you see the Moon,
you will see the Beauty of God.
If you see the Sun,
you will see the Power of God.
If you see a mirror,
you will see God’s best Creation.

 ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

A Soothing Balm for Troubled Emotions
by: Marcia West
click here to read more
.
The Tools of Change were given to me at a time of emotional turmoil due to changes occurring in my own life and in the lives of people I knew. I will never forget the day I received the gift of this second Tool of Change. It was a year before my Dad passed. He had become seriously ill a couple of months prior and I knew that we could lose him at anytime. It really hit me one day, sitting at my desk at home. Cherished memories from childhood came flooding in – things we had done together that meant so much to me. I must have sat there for a couple of hours sobbing over the loss that I knew was coming. I finally told myself that he hadn’t been able to do those things for years (foolishly hoping that I could talk myself out of it!). But logic did nothing to sooth my broken heart. The floodgates were open.

I finally did what people tend to do when they feel utterly helpless. I audibly cried out to God for help, asking for SOMETHING that would ease my pain. The answer came with no delay. “Put your memories into Gratitude.”  Hmmmm…..OK. I had helped many clients put their painful, hurtful memories into gratitude, assuring them that it would help them to truly forgive and reap the wisdom from those experiences. But it hadn’t occurred to me to do this for the gnawing ache of grief inside.

A memory surfaced of fishing with Dad. The spigot of tears reopened. I placed this memory into gratitude, and asked gratitude to envelope me. The surge of joy that filled my body was a complete surprise. My tears stopped and I could breathe again. Another memory surfaced, of racing to the house with him from the detached garage when he came home from work, wondering if I would ever be as fast as my Dad. More tears. I put that one into gratitude, and joy returned. Again and again that day, one after another, memories came to mind to be placed into gratitude. I wondered if it would ever end. Yet as the morning became afternoon, the minutes between them turned into hours. I knew it was working. By the end of the day and into the next I was emotionally and mentally lifted, sitting in joy and gratitude for all those wonderful times with my Dad.

Gratitude is the love essence of the Second Tool of Big-Hearted Change. It brings us out of the past and back into the present moment. This is true whether the past was glorious or gloomy. Memories and experiences can be painful. People have asked me, “How can I be grateful for something that brought me so much pain?” This is an excellent question. The answer lies in the heart, not the mind. We don’t have to “try” to be grateful, or convince ourselves of the value of anything. Gratitude is like Grace. It is an aspect of Divine Love that can be called upon to assist and fill us. It is a healing balm for regret, guilt, grief, anger, resentment, and nostalgia.

Gratitude is like forgiveness, in that it serves to release our emotional attachment to what has been. Yet it does even more than that. Gratitude also integrates the past into the whole of our life’s journey. My experience has been that, when I am willing to trust in Love, and ask for its help, not only does healing and movement occur, but I am also given understanding and a higher perspective that brings my mind along for the ride. That’s how these Tools of Big-Hearted Change work. They originate in the heart, and then understanding and solutions present themselves.

While the first Tool of Change – Grace – brings us back to the present from our fearful projections of the future, this second Tool of Change brings us back from the past. We have emotional attachments to so many things – people, places, things, memories, ideas, and ways of doing things. I want to emphasize the importance of feeling the whole range of our emotions. They are road signs. When they have done their job, gratitude helps us to release them. Letting go of the past is an important aspect of moving forward. True change can’t happen without it. We live and release. Live and release. This is living in the joy of the present moment. A hot air balloon must release its tethers before it can fly. Gratitude helps us to do the same.

*More about how to use Gratitude and the other six Tools of Big-Hearted Change may be found in the FREE Tools of Change pdf at bridgesofunity.com and in the book and ebook, “4 Essential Steps of Big-Hearted Change for Our New World Rising” by Marcia West.

About the Author:

Marcia West, founder of Bridges of Unity, is an agent of love-based change. An author of books and articles on Unity Consciousness, Wholeness and Harmony, Marcia co-creates templates that inspire and empower humanity to live in love. She is available for speaking engagements, consultations and workshops.

The school calendar is HIGHLY subject to change due to circumstances. Please contact the school to be aware of changes.

Thank you.

Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days
(to be announced later) for In-service Training.
Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net
for updated information.

    The School Calendar is subject to change.

There are no make-up days
if school is closed due to
 inclement weather.

Inclement Weather Policy:
the school will close if Fort Worth I. S. D. is closed.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2021
Anderson Private School.

I wish you all
 Peace.

Another Way God Hears You Pray / The PRIME Cause of Cancer – a Cell is Deprived of Oxygen by SUGAR / School Calendar

“Love is something
Eternal
– the aspects may change, but not the essence.
There is the same difference in a person
before and after he is in Love
as there is in an unlighted lamp
and one that is burning.
The lamp was there and is a good one,
but now it is shedding Light, too,
and that is its real function.” 
– Vincent Van Gogh

Children
can lose their sense
of wonder,
no longer keep their hunger
for Life and Living
and Love.
Never take a single precious breath
for granted.
.
God forbid
Love ever leaves your Heart
empty.
But please remember,
whenever one door closes,
one more always opens.
And,
if you give Faith
a fighting chance,
 you will
Dance.

I Pray you Dance.

And,
never fear.
God is near.

The Path
to Love
means
taking a chance,
.
But,
your precious Heart
will make all things
possible.

Give God
more than just a Passing Glance.
And when you get the chance,
  dance.

I Pray you
Dance.
Don’t look back
and wonder
why have all the years
gone
asunder,
appearing so briefly,
like
a bolt of thunder.

“My Mom died of a brain aneurysm when she was just 45-years-old. Well now 14 years later, I’ve stumbled back onto it and the feelings feel like I’m back in those moments of loss. Funny how music encapsulates so much. Last year I got to meet the wonderful woman who received my Mom’s Heart and was able to listen to my Mom’s Heart beating inside her with a stethoscope. It’s not closure, but it’s close. Please be an organ donor.”
– Sarah Clark
.

In restless dreams
you need never
walk alone.

Life
always combines Joy and sorrow.
And,
it reminds us that we too,
someday
will only be a memory.
Enjoy this Life
and do good while you are still
vibrant and alive
and able.

 

Your precious Spirit
can be so refreshing
in a World gone mad.
Yes,
YOU can be absolutely amazing.
The eyes
of those around you
will Thank You for the Beauty
in your Heart.
.
Love every minute.

Life
is a short but a Heartfelt
note
in the Song of Life.
.

Thank God
for the Gift
of your precious Soul.
One day
He will take you
out of your Body
and release your Spirit
into His Infinite
World of Love.

.

The answers
to all of your questions
dwell within the
Eternal Word
of God.

When Love is blind
 it is there inside you mind,
not within your
Heart.

.
“Above all,
keep fervent in your Love for one another,
because Love
covers a multitude of sins.”
– 1 Peter 4:8

 

Love
has no bounds
or barriers.

 

Yes,
it is crazy how fast
Love touches the Heart and Soul.
We are still learning so much about
Life,
and the ways
of God’s Universe.

 

We
can be so Happy.
 Every Beautiful Life
is unique.
The Love
and the emotion you put into
each day,
is another way
God hears you
Pray.

Everything
God does,
He does for
you.

Your Life
should ALWAYS be
a Gift to
someone.

 

From this moment on
your Dreams can come true,
if you Love
with all your Heart.

And,
how deep is your
Love?

 

Love is
dimensionless,
Eternal,
and Spiritual.
The Love
hidden in your Heart
has always been deeper and more Heartfelt,
than Life bears meaning.

 

Yes,
you will ALWAYS
be a precious Gift
to someone you
Love.
And more Today
than any day
that passed you by.

What is the difference between
like and Love?
When you like a Flower,
you pluck it.
But if you Love a Flower,
you water it
and look after it every day.

 

What an incredible thing,
to reach out and care
for the Flower of someone’s Life,
and sing the Song of Life
so Beautifully 
that you are awestruck
by your compassion,
and caring deeds
and Loving words.

The rhythm
of your Heart
can never be
undone.
..
YOU
can lift the Spirit
of someone in need
every time you meet,
and much higher
than you can Dream.

     We are formed by God into the Flower                                 of our Precious Being.

Our World
is full of goodness,
just
search for it,
and you will find it.

 

“When Life gives you a hundred reasons
to cry,
show Life you have a thousand reasons
to Smile.”

–  Gael Espino

.

Yes,
there is so much
that Time simply cannot erase.
 As you wipe away
all of your tears,
remember
Love

also creates a moment
that will last
forever.

How can a Love Story
never die?
.
.“Love is the vital core of the
Soul.
And of all you see,
only
Love is infinite.” 
– Rumi

 

When we lose someone we Love
we must learn not to Live without them,
but to Live with the Love
they left behind.

.

Love
always touches the Heart,
and makes you fell like
going someplace
and you don’t know where it is,
but it feels something like
Home.

.

“For all my days in many ways
I’ll think of all I’ve lived to see.
The mountains high, clouds in the sky
I thank the Lord for sharing them with me.
The summer’s glow, the winter’s snow
Are not to me just scenery
When tree tops sway I long to say
Oh thank you Lord for sharing them with me
Life I believe, Love we receive
We shouldn’t take too casually
For all my days in many ways
I’ll thank the Lord for sharing them with me.”
– Jack Fishman / Roy Budd
click to hear this Beautiful song by Mary Hopkin

The Love of God
in you,
is Simple
and Perfect.

Please share
with others in need
such GOD given Love.
May you continue
to be an inspiration
to others.
.
GOD BLESS YOU!

Goodnight.

 

“Real Love
takes you from limits of personal Love
into the immeasurable domain of Universal Love.
Human life is an inner journey from the head to the Heart
– from separateness to Oneness.” 
– Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

Dr. Otto Warburg:
The Man Who Discovered
the Prime Cause of Cancer

click here to read more

by Alexander Light
.
Dr. Otto Warburg was a Nobel Prize-winning German scientist who dedicated his life to researching cancer and in the 1920’s discovered it’s prime cause. 

Frustrated by the lack of acceptance of his ideas, Warburg often spelled out the axiom attributed to Max Plank, “Science advances one funeral at a time.”

Like all breakthrough scientific discoveries and the scientists who’ve discovered them, they are often laughed at for decades before they are acknowledged as true.

This occurs not because their conclusions are unreasonable; it occurs because either their peers don’t understand their work or because industries profiting from the lie go to great efforts to prevent the truth from becoming widely known. 

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while truth is putting on its shoes,” Mark Twain was quoted as saying.

The highly-respected Nobel Laureate Dr. Otto Warburg was one such scientist.

 

Dr. Otto Warburg: ‘Cancer is a Metabolic Disease’

Born in Germany in 1883, Dr. Otto Warburg was a physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel Laureate who spent much of his life devoted to researching and understanding cancer. 

During the first world war he served as an officer in the elite cavalry regiment and was awarded the iron cross (first class) for bravery.
.

Warburg stood out among his peers as one of the most highly regarded scientists in the world.  In 1931, he was the sole recipient of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Over the course of his career he was nominated for a nobel prize
47 times.

His work was published in a number of books including his keystone volume The Metabolism of Tumours in 1931. In a presentation to other Nobel Laureates in 1966 he made the following bold statement:
.

“The cause of cancer is no longer a mystery; we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements.”
.

Warburg hypothesized that cancer cell growth was fuelled by tumor cells producing energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP) by the anaerobic breakdown or fermentation of glucose.

 

Whereas healthy cells generate energy primarily through a reaction between oxygen and glucose (they “oxidize” glucose) within the mitochondria of the cell, cancer cells produce energy through the fermentation of glucose in the absence of oxygen. 

The end result of energy production by healthy cells is the production of carbon dioxide, which promotes health by serving as a potent antioxidant and by shuttling more oxygen into cells. 
.

Conversely, the end result of glucose fermentation by cancer cells is lactic acid or lactate, which can be consistently found in high levels within the bodies of people with cancer.

“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by fermentation of
SUGAR.” 
– Dr. Otto Warburg
.

Dr. Warburg made it clear that the root cause of cancer was oxygen deficiency caused by malfunctioning mitochondria. 

But as highly-regarded as he was by his peers, none of them took his finding seriously: It was almost as if they saw him as an otherwise brilliant scientist with a single flaw. 

Frustrated by the lack of acceptance of his ideas, Warburg often spelled out the axiom attributed to Max Plank, “Science advances one funeral at a time.”
.

It wasn’t until the past decade that Warburg’s work has begun experiencing a resurgence, and publishing activity of scientific papers worldwide has begun to soar. 

It took almost 100 years, but scientists are finally beginning to acknowledge that Warburg had been right all along.

“All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception.”
– Dr. Otto Warburg
.

Modern Research Validates Otto Warburg’s Discovery

When a cell is deprived of oxygen, it undergoes a metabolic shift – from the oxidation of glucose to glucose fermentation –
aptly titled The Warburg Effect. 
.

The second this shift in metabolism occurs is the moment it becomes a cancer cell.  It’s also the moment that genomic instability and mutations begin to occur.

Warburg knew it – and in recent years, a myriad of other scientific studies from across the world have verified it: Only after a cell is deprived of oxygen (hypoxia) do genetic mutations begin to occur, or said differently, hypoxia is the primary driver of genetic mutations.
..
Carlos Sonnenschein and Anna Soto of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachussets wrote in a study they published in 2000, “We argue that it is necessary to abandon the somatic mutation theory.”

That was 17 years ago, and the medical establishment is still pushing the outdated, fairytale (yet profitable) story that cancer is caused by genetic mutations.

(I hope this inspires you to stop believing in authority and to question everything you’re told.)

Thanks to the research of Dr. Otto Warburg and many others, we now know that cancer is a metabolic disease caused by oxygen deficiency – not a genetic disease caused by genomic mutations.
.

Homing in on The Root Cause of All Disease

To broaden our understanding of the effects of hypoxia on cells, Dr. Arthur C. Guyton – author of one of the most widely used medical textbooks in the world, The Textbook of Medical Physiology – made this extraordinary statement in 1976:

“All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack of oxygen at the cell level.”
– Dr. Arthur C. Guyton
.

Suddenly, our quest to discover how to prevent and cure cancer, we’ve not only identified cancer’s prime cause, but in doing so we’ve come face-to-face with the possibility that what cures cancer, cures all diseases.

What this means is that cancer and all diseases are metabolic in nature, and remarkably, all can be reversed by restoring the efficient use of oxygen.

Source: EndAllDisease.com

The school calendar is HIGHLY subject to change due to circumstances. Please contact the school to be aware of changes.

Thank you.

Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days
(to be announced later) for In-service Training.
Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net
for updated information.

    The School Calendar is subject to change.

There are no make-up days
if school is closed due to
 inclement weather.

Inclement Weather Policy:
the school will close if Fort Worth I. S. D. is closed.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2021
Anderson Private School.

 

Life is a Reflection of Love / UNacceptable Masks at the Mayo Clinic / Rumi / School Calendar

Sometimes,
the past reflects
the Happiness
we have known.

Looking
in the Mirror
of Life,
reminds us of what it is
to be Human.

Our reflection
in the mirror
of precious moments and memories,
lets us see Love more clearly,
and know just how precious
our brief Time on this Earth
really is.

Before
your precious Time is gone,
reflect upon the Fields of Gold
that you passed by,
and told
the Story of Life
and Love.
.
Yes,
we are given
but a quick glimpse
of the True Beauty
of Life,
through the Prism
of Love.

We can behold the Beauty
of Being.
And during such precious moments,
if we look inward and listen
in awe and appreciation,
our hallowed Souls
will come to realize
that we, ourselves
are a Sacred Memory
being etched in
Time.

Oh,
how quickly
Life
seems to go,
leaving only a precious and Sacred
memory.

Yes,
we have only a little Time
to Live,
a very brief Moment
to give
and share all the Love
that is Life.

We all have our own stories,
and they are never forgotten.
God knows the stories
our Lives tell,
and He Loves each of us.
.
Today,
as we walk in Fields of Gold,
the Blessings of our Lives,
we are exposed to the True Beauty
of our precious moments
on Earth.
And during these brief moments,
we can look and listen
in awe and wonder.
We Sacred and Hallowed Souls
are here for such a brief and precious
Time.

How quickly
Life seems to go,
leaving just the memories.
Yes,
one day
we come to realize,
that we ourselves will be
just a memory.

Yesterday
may not compare
to the Beauty of
now.

Open your eyes
and open your Heart.
There is
no better Time
or better place
to shine the Light
of your Sacred Being.

Let your Life
take you somewhere
your Soul
craves.
Be yourself,
and do what makes you,
and others,
Happy.

A person
who resonates with Love
and Compassion for others,
will have inner Peace –
and this is the starting point
for a World where we can Live
in Harmony
with each other,
and with our Mother
Earth.

We are here
on this brief Journey
together.
We are all One.
One Heart.
One Love.

We
are enchantingly Divine,
and filled with such Beauty
to share with everyone.
The Creation of our Life
is deeply profound.

My Dear Friends,
the sounds of Silence
are delightful
to listen to.
 And when the Sun
has walked across sky,
and the stars are eager to fly by,
let your Heart soar with them
in the Heavens
above.

Joy
is very simple.
What you seek
is your own Light,
your own Love,
your own Beauty.

Beyond
the midnight of your sorrow,
the Sun in your Heart
will soon rise,
and soar among the Heavens
of your delights,
to show that we are all connected
to a very Large Heart.
Take the time
and feel the
Love of God.

The LOVE
that is within us all
is waiting to be discovered
and shared with
everyone.

We
are here to discover,
WHY
we are here.
The River
ever flows to find
the Sea.
While you and I
Live,
to find the Love of God
that flows through you and
me.

Goodnight.

“You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know
how soon it will be too late.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acceptable masks at Mayo Clinic
click here to read more

All patients, staff and visitors are required to wear a mask
while on Mayo Clinic property.

See visual examples of acceptable COVID-19 masks (PDF).

Acceptable masks

• Homemade masks that cover the nose and mouth
  • Please do not use athletic neck gaiters, bandanas or crochet material. New evidence suggests they may be less effective than cloth masks.
• Surgical or procedural masks (tie or ear loop)
• Dust masks
• N95 masks without vents
  • N95 respirators are preferred for health care personnel during specific care activities.
  • Patients or visitors arriving with an N95 masks may continue using them.

Unacceptable masks

• Masks with vents
  • Why? Masks with vents or exhalation valves allow unfiltered exhaled air to escape.
  • Such masks are an unacceptable form of source control as a universal mask while on Mayo Clinic property.

“When you let go of who you are,
you become who you might be.”
– Rumi

If you ask someone who they are, they’ll probably give you their name, what they do for a living, their hobbies, and maybe something else.

But is that who they are? A name, a job? Is that who you are?

The people who have delved the depths of their consciousness say that we are one of these things. We’re most certainly not some evolutionary accident, either.

No. According to the great sages and seers, including Rumi, we are much, much more. What is that exactly? It’s something we need to find out for ourselves. We can start by letting go.

Rumi was a scholar and poet that lived in 13^th century Persia (now modern-day Iran.) Like all extraordinary gifted and profound teachers, Rumi’s words have transcended time and place.

The school calendar is HIGHLY subject to change due to circumstances. Please contact the school to be aware of changes.

Thank you.

Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days
(to be announced later) for In-service Training.
Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net
for updated information.

    The School Calendar is subject to change.

There are no make-up days
if school is closed due to
 inclement weather.

Inclement Weather Policy:
the school will close if Fort Worth I. S. D. is closed.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2021
Anderson Private School.

 

 

Love Will Rise One Day / Lowest Radiation Cell Phones To Prevent Cancer of the Brain / 2020-21 School Calendar

Our World
is crying out for
understanding.

In our more innocent Time,
when Life was simple
and filled with childhood times
and Love was to be found
every Day,
when the Music of the moment
could touch our Hearts,
and we would play
and Pray,
Life
was good.
.
Many
of our precious memories
are so wholesome.
Just Love them,
for after all these many, many years –
we still are swept away
by the soothing melody
of moments
meant to stay.
Life
should be Lived
moment by moment,
not
day by day.

“Every moment
is a fresh beginning.”
– T. S.  Elliott

There is always a place
your Heart
can return to.
The essence of
Life
stays with us.
For we Live again
in our memories.
Our memories
are us.

Our Reality
is Pure Consciousness,
pure energy.
It cannot be
destroyed,
only transformed.
We are Spiritual Beings
having a Human experience.
And the Consciousness
of our Soul is Eternal.
In the Warm Embrace
of God,
we need never
fear death,
for the end
is forever near
to never.

The language of Life
and Living,
can obfuscate reality,
and the depths
of our feelings
be denied.
.
Today,
there may be no calm surrender
to the rush of day,
no gentle reminder
that Love,
like the Sun,
will rise again
one day.

My Dear Friends,
Life on this Earth
is just a fragment
of the existence
of the Eternal Soul.
..
“To be absent from the body
is to be present
with the Lord.”
– 2 Cor. 5:8

In these Times
of loneliness and uncertainty,
the Beautiful Reflections of Life remind us
that everything will be okay.
Because,
we have never lost
our way.

Every night in our Dreams,
  we see, 
we hear,
we feel,
and Life goes
on,
even in the depths
of darkness,
and the decay
of Day.

But,
we can feel
the power of God
within.
A feeling
so powerful
it cannot be denied.
His Precious Words
are Jewels to our ears,
as we come closer
to His Truth.

“True happiness is like radium.
It is a form of Love that becomes
all the more complete
as it is turned towards others;
that is why happiness is within everyone’s reach,
even the poorest.”
– Robert Baden-Powell

Search your Heart
and you will search
no more.
And then,
there will be just two types of people
left –
those who have fallen in Love with you,
and those you have yet to meet.

How much of God’s Grace
 is concentrated in those
appearing so tender and powerful,
and filled with Love
at the same time.

We Beautiful people,
we Children of God,
possess Angelic Qualities.

When the sky cries for you,
the Land is Blessed,
and Life
goes on.
And when you cry,
the Love in your Heart
is a Fountain
of Blessing
for someone in this Life
far beyond Beauty,
beyond
what may be told.
and is foretold
by the Love
of God.

God,
will always care,
wherever you may be,
He will be there.

The Magic in your Heart
may lie across a Sea
of tears
you cry
for those
you meet
and truly Love.

Only
the Human Heart knows,
how Love
and pain
may become one
and the same.

Goodnight.

“If you keep your Heart open
through everything,
your pain can become your greatest ally
in your Life’s search for
Love and Wisdom.”
– Rumi

Lowest Radiation Cell Phones of 2020

click here to read more

This is a comprehensive chart of the lowest radiation cell phones currently available.

Rank	Phone	SAR	Carrier
1.	Verykool Vortex RS90	0.18	Unlocked
2.	Samsung Galaxy Note	0.19	T-Mobile
3.	ZTE Nubia 5	0.225	Unlocked
4.	Samsung Galaxy Note 2	0.28	Verizon
5.	Samsung Galaxy Mega	0.321	AT&T
6.	Kyocera Dura XT	0.328	Sprint
7.	Pantech Discover	0.35	AT&T
8.	Samsung Galaxy Beam	0.36	Unlocked
9.	Samsung Galaxy Stratosphere II	0.37	Verizon
10.	Pantech Swift	0.386	AT&T
11.	Samsung Jitterbug Plus	0.4	Great Call
11a.	Jitterbug Plus	0.4	Great Call
13.	LG Exalt	0.43	Verizon
13a.	Samsung Galaxy Note 2	0.43	Sprint
15.	HTC One V	0.455	US Cellular
16.	LG Optimus Vu	0.462	Unlocked
17.	Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G	0.47	T-Mobile
17a.	Samsung Rugby 3	0.47	AT&T
19.	HTC One Max	0.5	Sprint
20.	LG G2	0.51	T-Mobile

The school calendar is HIGHLY subject to change due to circumstances. Please contact the school to be aware of changes.
Classes are in session this week
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Nov. 23, 24 and 25.
There is NO SCHOOL on Thursday and Friday
of this week
Nov. 26 and Nov. 27.
Classes WILL resume again
on Monday Nov. 30 for the next full week.
Thank you.

Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days
(to be announced later) for In-service Training.
Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net
for updated information.

    The School Calendar is subject to change.

There are no make-up days
if school is closed due to
 inclement weather.

Inclement Weather Policy:
the school will close if Fort Worth I. S. D. is closed.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2020
Anderson Private School.

.

Called to the Life of our Ancestors / How Dental Problems Can Lead to Stroke / School Opens Sept. 1 (Tuesday)

We
cannot be Loved
less,
when we choose to Love
more.

As we
are called to the Life
of our Ancestors
in order to survive
this wilderness of thought,
 we can gaze into the eye of our Sun,
and Love and Honor and Cherish
our Sacred Mother,
this Earth,
and choose to walk upon her
lightly,
and bring Happiness and Kindness
to all Hearts,
all Life.

The answers to Life are
everywhere.
If we seek to know,
inwardly,
we will find them,
and,
we will find
our True Self.

Your Soul
speaks a Language Divine.
You know what it is saying.
It knows
what True Love is,
and 
that it means to be Truly
alive.

In every word
you speak
and everything you do,
there is flowing sand
and running water.
YOU
come through our Mother
Earth,
from
the Love
of your Father
in Heaven Above.
Let your precious Sacred Being
flow like Poetry.

As we seek the Truth
about everything . . .
about Life and death,
about Love and pain
and the Joy that resides deep within our Souls,
about sacrifice and Salvation,
about our God that Loves us
so much,
know that He is listening to the Music
in your Sacred Heart,
and He Feels
Endless Love for you.

“One smile can start a friendship
One word can stop a fight
One look can save a relationship
One hug can spark a Hope
One touch can bring a warmth
One whisper can bring assurance
One decision can stop a war
One cooperation can bring abundance
One kiss can bring a kindness
One sleep can bring rest
One wake can bring Happiness
One solution can stop the tests.
If we only learn to smile to a stranger,
to stop the fight,
to start a relationship,
to spark a Hope,
to embrace with warmth,
to speak assurances,
to end the war,
to give abundance,
to pass forward Kindness,
to allow rest,
to share Happiness,
then maybe we can pass God’s Test!”
– Govinda Kumar

 

“Study me as much as you like,
you will not know me,
for I differ in a hundred ways
from what you see me to be.
Put yourself behind my eyes and see me
as I see myself,
for I have chosen to dwell in a place
you cannot see.”
― Rumi

There is pleasure
on the pathless trails
that flow through
the endless Forests
of Life and Living,
if we Love not
our fellow Human Beings the less,
but Love all
of Nature more.

Commune with the Universe,
and feel
what cannot be expressed.

Life is not just a Beautiful Love story,
it’s about our brief Time on this Earth,
 about opportunities to Love and be Loved,
about the choices we make in Life,
about sharing our Gifts of Joy.

“How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more Loving one be
me.”
– W.H. Auden

This World
is ancient and mysterious.
It reverberates
with the sounds of Life
and Infinite Love.

 Cherish your memories,
forget your regrets,
Forgive and Truly Live.
This is a short Life
and this is a real opportunity
for Happiness and Joy.

 Our Time is limited.
And that
makes Life
all the more
special.

In these troubled times,
YOU
can bring Hope.
Your inner Beauty
does that.
Let it shine.

Listen
to the Beautiful Music
of the precious Lives
that Live all around you.
 There are tears
falling like drops of rain,
Hearts that weigh so heavy
they beat slowly,
with feelings so immense
you may not understand
the words never spoken.
But you can
feel
the Music
in their moment. 

“We all are gladiators,
fighting battles every day
that others don’t know.”
– Ali Hamza

Our emotions can hold us
in a timeless grasp.

But,
in the moment
your Heart
beats for someone else,
your Life
has just begun.

There are Signs
all around us,
some more obvious to see
than others.
Ask your Father in Heaven Above
  to Light your path,
You are not alone.
You are never alone.

JOY lives
within knowing
that God Loves you.

YOUR
Ultimate Story of Being
is much, much more
than you can ever dream.

My Dear Friends,
be content
with the precious Life
and the Love
God has given,
and you will enjoy Living.
We have value
far beyond
our imagining.

Goodnight.

How Dental Problems Can Lead to Stroke

By

Heidi Moawad, MD

click here to read more

verywellhealth.com

Did you know that your dental health has consequences that go well beyond your mouth? Taking care of your teeth has been found to protect your overall health, and the most surprising relationship between dental health and overall health is that problems with your dental health have been associated with stroke.

What Kind of Dental Problems Lead to Stroke? 

Research studies from countries as diverse as Germany, France, Sweden, India, and Korea show that varying degrees of periodontal disease (gum disease) are associated with strokes. Mild gum disease, which causes inflammation of the gums, is called gingivitis, while more serious gum disease that causes the actual destruction of the gums is called periodontitis. Severe periodontitis can lead to tooth decay and eventually even tooth loss. All three of these types of gum disease are associated with a stroke — even the mildest form, which is gingivitis.1

A recent research study from Sweden followed randomly selected people over a period of 26 years. Researchers reported, “that gingival inflammation was clearly associated with stroke.”2

And yet another research study found that having severe periodontal disease and tooth loss was a strong predictor of stroke, and even that people who had lost more teeth had usually experienced more strokes. Tooth loss was found to be a predictor of silent strokes.3 Silent strokes are strokes that people don’t know they had because silent strokes don’t cause obvious handicaps. However, over time, the build-up of silent strokes can cause disabling problems such as dementia.

What Kind of Strokes Can Dental Problems Cause?

Many research studies have shown a correlation between gum disease and lack of dental care with ischemic strokes.4 Ischemic strokes are strokes caused by interruption of blood flow due to a blood clot.

Dental Problems Associated With Stroke

Dental problems such as gingivitis, periodontitis, and tooth loss are all associated with inflammation, and sometimes with an infection. Infections have been shown to increase the risk of stroke, possibly due to the body’s inflammatory immune response to infections.5

Sometimes inflammation and infection can make the blood more likely to clot, causing a stroke. If serious dental problems persist untreated for a long time, the inflammation and infection that result from unhealthy teeth and gums can make an ischemic stroke more likely.

How to Protect Your Teeth

It is advantageous to have good dental health. For many people, dental care can seem time-consuming and costly. Prevention of gum disease and tooth loss is best achieved through consistently brushing teeth, flossing, avoiding cigarettes and regular visits to the dentist. Once gum disease has started, it is treatable and manageable. Often, deep cleaning in the dentist’s office is recommended.

Cost of Dental Care

One of the biggest reasons that people do not take care of their teeth is concern about the cost. It may be beneficial to ask for recommendations and ask the dentist’s office about the cost of a dental visit ahead of time. And it is useful to keep in mind that some health insurance plans cover the complete or partial cost of dental care. Overall, the cost of dental care is much lower than the cost of a stroke, which is an expensive lifelong condition to live with.

Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days
(to be announced later) for In-service Training.
Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net
for updated information.

    The School Calendar is subject to change.

There are no make-up days
if school is closed due to
 inclement weather.

Inclement Weather Policy:
the school will close if Fort Worth I. S. D. is closed.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2020
Anderson Private School.

.

The Inner Peace of Tranquility / A Saner Way

Life is unpredictable.
It is typically filled with
little Joy
and much sorrow.

Our dreams can simply
disappear.
And then
we ask ourselves,
how can we find
the inner peace
of tranquility,
living with such
uncertainty?

My Dear Friends,
you can find
that there is a place
in you,
where you are quiet and calm
and nothing can disturb you.
But it is difficult
to find the way there.

Help
is available.
Please allow me
to share
some truly valuable resources.

One
of the most valuable
I have discovered
is from
www.wikihow.com/Achieve-Inner-Peace.

The following is from
wikihow.com:

Do you want to achieve the calmness and serenity
that comes with inner peace?
Anyone can!
All you need to do is let go
of the stresses and strains
of daily life
and make time to just
be.
.
Finding inner peace is a process
– so take it
one day at a time.

Quiet your mind.
Sit quietly to free and empty your mind of thought.
Rest frequently.
Find a comfortable spot to unwind, relax
or take a nap.
Being well-rested
is crucial to your mental and emotional well-being.

Keep everything simple.
Inner peace is easier to achieve
when you simplify your life
and your to-do list.
Try not to do everything at once.
You can do anything you want,
but you don’t have to do everything
at once.

Take your time.
Achieving inner peace is a process;
take the time to experience and enjoy
your own personal journey.
Don’t be discouraged if the process takes a while;
there is Beauty in the process
of becoming.

if you are recovering from emotional trauma,
allow yourself the TIME
to experience the process of recovery.
You can achieve inner peace
and live a purposeful, self-directed life
when you take the time to recover
fully.

Tranquility
can be difficult to achieve.
It can take
a great deal of
TIME.
.
But you can
ENJOY traveling down
the path to inner peace.
And,
it will require YOU
to learn much more
than you know.

There is Beauty in the process of becoming.

.
Know Thyself.
this thought, commonly attributed to Socrates,
stems from a more ancient source
and lies at the root of all
philosophy.
.
Know Thyself was written on
the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Legend tells that the seven sages of ancient Greece,
philosophers, statesmen and law-givers,
who laid the foundation for western culture,
gathered in Delphi to inscribe “know thyself”
at the entry to its sacred oracle.
The adage subsequently became a touch-stone
for western philosophers,
and extended its reach
as the influence of Greek philosophy expanded.
This site gathers its most profound expressions
and elaborates on their meaning.

The path to inner peace.

Self-knowledge is all-encompassing.
What is learned on one scale of experience
can be applied to all scales.
It is the highest form of knowledge,
surpassing all other knowledge.

Self-knowledge is also timeless,
which means that what is gained in one era,
benefits all subsequent generations.
On this website we have gathered
many expressions of ancient wisdom
that have been articulated by eminent men and women
from all ages, traditions and cultures.

Our compilation reveals the Universal nature
of man’s quest for self-knowledge,
and further shows that no age of mankind
was necessarily any closer or farther
from this quest than any other.

Although we may be technologically more sophisticated
than our ancestors,
the age we inhabit is in the same relationship
as previous eras to this quest.
Therefore, the primary aim of this site
is to benefit from the ancient wisdom
of our ancestors and apply it to our own period.

If you’d like to explore the quest for self-knowledge more deeply, subscribe to our mailing list.
We will send you email updates
on a contemporary attempt at building
an online community that applies
ancient wisdom in modern times.

Or simply read on to learn more
about the Universal challenge of
self-knowledge.

When asked what was the most difficult thing,
Thales replied, “To know thyself.”
When asked what was easiest,
he replied, “To give advice.”

Since Solon (one of the seven sages)
received his education in Egypt,
the principle of Know Thyself
might well predate the Greeks.
At the same time, the Hindus in the east
developed their system of philosophy
before the Greek civilization,
and knowledge of the Self
took a prominent position in their writings.
(Read more about the history of Know Thyself)

Wherever and whenever the adage originated,
Know Thyself was universally adopted and placed
at the foundation of knowledge,
the corner stone on which the temples of philosophy
should be erected.

“The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,”
claimed the Greek philosopher Plato.
Centuries before him, the Hindu Upanishads confirmed,
“Enquiry into the truth of the Self is knowledge.”

Leagues away and centuries later,
the Persian poet Rumi wondered,
“Who am I in the midst of all this thought traffic?”
and the American poet Walt Whitman celebrated his Self,
“a simple, separate person.”

Know Thyself through time

This two-word imperative traveled from antiquity
and throughout history to the present day.
Like a golden thread in a multicolored fabric,
Know Thyself wove its course through races and cultures, through religious and secular traditions, spanning spiritual and scientific teachings and appearing in art and literature.

Indeed, the ancient adage was declared
in almost every medium on every continent and in every era.

Know thyself has often been a corner stone
rejected.

“Can one know oneself”
wondered the French poetess George Sand.
“Is one ever somebody?”
“When will I ever see that Am that I Am?”
lamented the poet Rumi.

Scores of poets and philosophers
dedicated their lives to inquiring about the Self,
seeking its elusive mysteries, digging deep to unearth
that hidden stone without which all construction would be futile.
Some attained remarkable results,
attested to by the legacy of their works.
Others never found an end to their quest.
“I have an inner self of which I was ignorant,”
confesses the Bohemian – Austrian poet Rilke in his diary,
while the ninety-year-old art-historian Bernard Berenson
tells a different story:

Yet,
who is the real I,
where does he hide from ME?

I know who he is not,
but how and what and if at all HE is,
I have never discovered
although for more than seventy years
I have been looking for him.

It is the sincerity of such remarks as Berenson’s
that touch the reader and direct his attention inwards,
asking himself the very questions
these authors posed in their times.

Know Thyself – the essence of knowledge

If the essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,
then this site is an elementary door
to all those in pursuit of this wisdom.
Within these pages and posts are compilations of sayings on
Know Thyself,
the fruition of many hours of research by several individuals.
The quotations compiled are at the reader’s disposal.

Profound sayings on Know Thyself invite
contemplation.

They profess that Truth stands the test of time,
bypassing the ages and connecting us with the authors
who expressed them.
They spark our curiosity to learn more about the men and women who struggled before us, who strove in their times to find a firm foundation of truth,
as we do today.

They prove timelessly relevant and open doors into further inquiry of our true nature.
They confirm that, despite the passage of millennia, man’s struggles have essentially remained the same: man is, and always has been, a being in search of truth and identity.

Moreover, expressions of self-knowledge call us to action.
“‘Know Thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world,”
said the Irish writer Oscar Wilde –
more than two thousand years after the seven sages inscribed it on the forecourt of their oracle.
“Over the portal of the new world,
‘Be Thyself’
shall be written.”

Socrates on Know Thyself

The only true wisdom
is in knowing you know
nothing.

“Wisdom begins with wonder,” said Socrates.
Through dialogue, he led his audience to passionate inquiry
of existence and identity.

His speech maintained a humble tone, claiming,
to the surprise of his listeners,
that he knew nothing.
In his mind,
one could not know anything without knowing one’s self.

Thus, the Seven Sages of Greece,
who had inscribed know thyself in the forecourt
of the Delphic oracle a few generations before Socrates,
had challenged all subsequent philosophers to attain self-knowledge before knowing anything else.
Socrates embraced this ancient challenge humbly:

I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself; so it seems to me ridiculous, when I do not yet know that, to investigate irrelevant things.

Care first about the greatest perfection of the Soul.

“What I want to discover at present,”
said Socrates,
“is the art which devotes its attention
to precision, exactness, and the fullest
truth.”

His philosophical inquiry was, therefore,
dedicated to truth,
foremost the truth about himself.
By publicly admitting his self-ignorance,
he made his audience aware of their own.

My Dear Friends,
there will be storms to face,
and sometimes tragedies.
But with Faith in our Loving God
and with trust in His Divine help,
we can confidently say,
“It will be well with my Soul.”

Goodnight.

A Saner Way

by Sun, Co-Founder of Gentle World
on December 18, 2017
read more

Here My Dear Friends,
is more
Food for Thought.

If we were to search throughout the history of human existence, in every nook and cranny on Planet Earth, we would not find one perfectly sane mind. Some form and degree of madness (in both senses of the word) is and has always been a pandemic disease among our species, from which no one has been immune, or has ever been known to fully recover.

And yet, despite the monumental ramifications of this astounding fact, it is rarely noted by even the most serious thinkers. It seems that we are unwilling to experience the inevitable humbling that must come with admitting, even to ourselves, that as a species, we human beings too often think, feel and behave as though we were not in our right minds.

Until we lift the veil of denial that blinds us to this premise, we will continue to go about our lives in utter confusion as to why we do the crazy things we do. But when we admit to ourselves, and one another, that the reason we behave as though we are mad is because we are, our confusion disappears.

We understand why we choose, of our own free will, to sacrifice clean air, water and food essential for our survival for petty pleasures that are too embarrassing to list and are sure to be the death of us; why we hide from one another behind a lifetime of disguises and lies; why we settle our disputes by fighting people we do not know, under orders from others we do not know, in defense of what we do not know is so; and why the demons of depression, obsession, repression, anxiety, guilt, apathy, hate and jealousy haunt our days and nights.

The many symptoms of our shared illness are easily seen on any street corner, in homes, schools, work places, courtrooms or anywhere else human behavior is on display.

But the most serious is our seeming obsession with some form of violence. What greater proof that the state of our minds is off-kilter than the fact that we commit, condone and applaud gruesome acts of violence, on a daily basis… from slaughterhouses and laboratories to war zones? What else, but mental illness, would explain why Spiritual beings, capable of reason and compassion, choose cruelty and violence instead?

Evolving beyond our lust for violence is the essential first step toward our desperately-needed cure. Only by rising above our willingness to terrorize, be terrorized by or watch anyone else terrify or be terrified by anyone else, will we, for the first time in our history, feel safe enough to lift the veil that hides our saner selves. When we do, we will discover that although we are surely mad, we are not only mad.

Each of us is empowered with a reasonable mind and a compassionate heart… the golden pillars that frame the pathway to a saner way of living.

When we embark on that pathway, we come face to face with veganism, which is non-violence in action. The concept, as simple as it is profound, is that the violent, unbelievably cruel custom of enslaving, torturing and killing our fellow earthlings must and will end when we stop supporting it, and we will do so when we see the innocent victims for who they really are… mysterious beings like us, who feel pain and Love life as we do, and have done us no harm.

When we open our minds to reason and compassion, we will see with saner eyes, that their precious bodies are not ours to bend and break to our will for the sake of our pleasure, comfort, convenience or any other excuse our unreasonable, apathetic thinking can conjure up.

Without veganism, we will remain trapped in our madness.

With it, we will be the sanest we have ever been.

 Beings like us, who feel pain and Love life as we do.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statute. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2018 The Anderson Private School.
All Rights Reserved

Life is a Celebration / You are One With the Universal Mind / Electric Cars / Friday Trip: Modern Art Museum

         In the face of EACH creature                                I see my Creator.

Our acts
of Human kindness
bring God’s presence
into our World.

In our search
for Truth,
Ultimate Truth,
we may one day discover
that the Love
felt deeply within
our Human Heart
IS
the very
presence of God.

Love
is a description of God,
because
God is Love.
This is what He is,
and what
He will always be.

“Whoever does not Love
does not know God,
because God is Love.”
– 1 John 4:8

                                I am alive.

To proclaim
that I am alive
in every moment,
is
to absolutely know
that God is with you
each and every
day.

In that existential
time,
you will know
you are not
alone.
And this knowledge
can Enrich your Life
and Ennoble
death.

The shadow
of who you are
can never
  reflect a lighter shade of pale,
if you choose
to Live,
giving all
you can give.

Stand up
for the Miracle you are.
Live in the Faith
God has in You.
And follow the Dream
that lies ahead,
the Dream
God has for
YOU.

Immortality
awaits me and you.
  But the Vision and the Fire
of Life
is a Dream
yet unfulfilled.

                  Enrich your Life and Ennoble death.

Only
a free person
has the strength
to benefit
Humanity.
And
only a strong person
has the freedom
to free
others.

These attributes
emanate from
profound intellectual rigor,
suppleness of mind
and audacious
courage,
to loudly proclaim:
“I shall not
Live my Life
in vain.”

                             You are not alone.

Our History
offers glimpses of great
Heroism and Dignity,
which illuminate
the Human condition.
These moments
are precious in Time.
THEY
must be shared.

Do not be
inaccessible.
YOU
are what your child
truly possesses.
Ultimately,
you will be what,
in memory,
remains.

Open wide
the Heart.
The great Love
contained within
can only cast
a mere shadow,
if inside
you are burdened,
thinking,
“I am only
me”.

No.
YOU are every generation,
this day
and yesterday,
and all
there is to be,
from the beginning
of our Creation,
to the end.
You are
everyone
you know
or will ever meet.
YOU
are the greatest Gift
your child
will inherit,
or ever, ever see.

You
are the overarching
Miracle of Creation,
the all encompassing
Perfection
of Universal physical law,
reflect of the ALL powerful
Creative Force
that brought you
into Being.

God
has truly Blessed you,
far, far beyond Belief.

        You are the overarching Miracle of Creation

My Friends,
we find Compassion
in the Knowledge
of God’s Eternal Embrace.
And we find Refuge
in the Shelter of God’s
Loving Grace.

This Love,
the Love of God
that dwells within,
is the Divine birthright
of ever generation
that ever was,
and remains.

Parents
are the instruments
of God
used to bring Life
into Being.
And our mission
is to parent with
God
in perfecting
the Beautiful Work
of His Creation.

Life
is a celebration,
a revolution,
a Divine Revelation.

Goodnight.

“Life in ALL its
forms,
is Sacred;
in the face
of EACH creature
I see my
Creator.”
– Rabi Lawrence Kushner

            Life, in ALL its forms, is Sacred.

“They say that when a man is born
– the sky is falling Soul
and breaks into two parts.
One part goes to the women
and one for men.
The meaning of Life
is to find the other half.
Catches of his own soul.”
– Anna Aisha

                  YOU are what your child possesses.

You are One With the Universal Mind

By Tania Kotsos
read more

There is a single, intelligent Consciousness
that pervades the entire Universe
– the Universal Mind.
It is all knowing, all powerful, all creative and always present.
As it is present everywhere at the same time,
it follows that it must also be present in you
– that it is you.
Your mind is part of the one Universal Mind.
This is not simply a philosophical ideal
passed down to us through the ages.
It is an exact scientific truth.
Know it, believe it, apply it
and you will see your life transform
in miraculous ways.

Albert Einstein told us that “everything is energy”;
that “a human being is a part of the whole
called by us [the] Universe”.
His words echoed the most ancient of Spiritual and philosophical teachings and still underpin today’s
cutting-edge scientific discoveries.

The Universal Mind goes by many names.
In the scientific world we know of the Unified Field,
in spiritual philosophy we refer to The All or Universal Consciousness and in religion we call upon God,
who Himself goes by many names.
The name is relevant only in so far
as it resonates with you.

Whichever way you cut it,
you come to this one unavoidable conclusion:
there is but One Consciousness
of which your consciousness must be a part
and “a part”,
as Charles Haanel said,
“must be the same in kind and quality as the whole,
the only difference being one of degree”.

The nature of the Universal Mind
is Omniscience (all knowing),
Omnipotence (all powerful),
Omnificence (all creative)
and Omnipresence (always present).

Know
that this too is
your nature.

This week in Philosophy:
What Dreams May Come:
a story of LOVE and devotion
that transcends the bonds
of Time.

ELECTRIC CARS
from revelationforex.com
read more

Dyson, the engineering company best known for its vacuum cleaners and fans, plans to spend £2bn developing a “radical” electric car.

The battery-powered vehicle is due to be launched in 2020.

Dyson says 400 staff have been working on the secret project for the past two years at its headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

However, the car does not yet exist, with no prototype built, and a factory site is yet to be chosen.

Sir James declined to give further details of the project. “Competition for new technology in the automotive industry is fierce and we must do everything we can to keep the specifics of our vehicle confidential,” he told staff in an email.

Important points that are undecided or secret include the firm’s expected annual production total, the cost of the car, or its range or top speed.

Sir James said about £1bn would be spent on developing the car, with another £1bn on making the battery.
Analysis: Richard Westcott, BBC transport correspondent

It was a slightly unusual launch, but then, Sir James Dyson likes to be different.

In a small room above his swanky London shop he told us about his vision for a clean car.

First up, we were treated to an old clip of Blue Peter, from the 90s, where Anthea Turner interviewed him about his new device to clean soot from the exhaust of diesel vehicles… it was the cyclone from his vacuum cleaner, put to a different use.

“That is how long I have wanted to do this,” he told us.

In fact he first hatched the idea in the late 1980s.

Since then, he has developed motors and batteries and now he is able to bring all that expertise together in a new, electric car.

He promised that it will be radical and different, because, as he put it, what is the point of making it like any other car?

And he promised that it will not be cheap.

I did ask how much it would be to put down a deposit… he told me he would have to think about it.

Further development work will take place at a former RAF base at Hullavington in Wiltshire, where staff will move to in February.

Sir James also said that his firm’s car would look “radical and different”, but will not be aimed at the mass market.

The motor is designed and ready to go, he said, but the firm is still designing the car.

Dyson’s decision means it is joining the rush within the global car industry to develop and make electric cars.

Some manufacturers such as Nissan, Tesla, Renault, BMW and Hyundai already manufacture them.

Others such as VW, Volvo, Mercedes, Honda and Jaguar Land Rover have announced plans to sell electric or hybrid versions of their existing petrol and diesel engine ranges.

VW, for instance, plans to spend 20bn euros (£17.5bn) by 2030 to develop its battery powered vehicles.

Sir James said he had been interested since 1990 in developing filtration technology to stop vehicle diesel emissions polluting the environment.

But as the motor industry had shown no interest in adopting this idea, he would instead join the fast-growing trend to make electric vehicles.
Analysis: Theo Leggett, BBC business correspondent

The electric car market is growing rapidly, but it is also about to become a lot more crowded.

Within the next few years, many new models are due to come on to the market, including Jaguar’s Ipace, Porsche’s Mission E, Volkswagen’s I.D. family and Mercedes’ EQ range. Tesla also has big plans for its recently launched Model 3.

They will be joining established models such as the Nissan Leaf, the BMW i3, the Renault Zoe and the Tesla Model S.

Dyson clearly sees an opportunity here. As new designs become available, and prices come down, more consumers will be willing to try electric vehicles.

Policymakers, concerned about air pollution, want them to do just that.

The big question is whether Dyson can muscle in on territory that the major manufacturers are already trying to make their own. And let’s not forget Google’s designs on the electric/self-driving market.

Tesla was able to build a new car brand from scratch, but only by producing a design which effectively moved the goalposts and changed people’s expectations of what an electric car could provide.

If Dyson wants to play with the big boys, it may have to pull off a similar trick.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute. Non-profit,
educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

Lyrics/song texts/paintings are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

The Word “Love” is Inadequate / Robert Lotman / Spring Break This Week

There is Beauty
all around you,
even unto a singular
drop of water
reflecting the World
at large.

Just as you
reflect
ALL the Love that abounds
all around.

“Listen to each drop of rain
whispering secrets in vain.
Frantically searching for someone to hear
their story before they hit ground.
Please don’t let go.
Can’t we stay for a while?
It’s just to hard to say goodbye.
Listen to the rain.

I stand alone in the storm.
Suddenly,
sweet words take hold.
(Listen listen)
Hurry,
they say
for you haven’t much time.
Open your eyes
to the Love around you.
You may feel you’re alone.
But I’m here still with you.
You can do what you dream.
Just remember
to listen to the rain.”
– Amy Lee

                   Reflecting the World.

My Friends,
your smile
is reflected in another,
who smiled at
You.
Your laughter
was alive before you,
in the birth
of awareness,
in the magnificence
of our predicament,
in the delight
of our Humanity,
in celebration of our
perfect imperfections.

“In one drop of water
are found all the secrets
of all the oceans;
in one aspect of You
are found ALL the aspects
of Existence.”
– Kahlil Gibran

God
is in Love
with YOU.
How
could it not be?
He created you.
He cherishes you.
His Son
died for you.

The World reflect
dances like silver,
mirrored in the waters
of every lake
and stream,
in every drop of water,
in the Hope
of every
Dream.

Yes,
there is Beauty
ALL around.
And
the greatest Beauty,
the most magnificent of all,
is to be found in
YOU.

“Know
that it is the waves of Love
that turn the Wheels of Heaven.
Without Love,
NOTHING in the world would have Life.
With one Rose
you can buy hundreds of Rose gardens.
Where, for one seed
you get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath,
the Divine Wind?”
– Rumi

          The history of ALL mankind.

Buried
deep within the DNA
of every person,
lies the History
of ALL Mankind.

A new Universe
has been discovered –
inside each of over
one trillion Human cells,
It harbors information systems
more complex than anything
ever designed by Humanity’s
very best minds.

“DNA is like
a software program,
only MUCH more complex
than anything we’ve ever devised.”
– Bill Gates

The information in our DNA
is equivalent to a dozen SETS
of The Encyclopaedia Britannica –
more than 384 volumes
of highly detailed information
that would fill 48 feet
of library shelves!
And
it is contained in a space
only two millionths of one millimeter
thick.

“You are not a drop
in the Ocean.
You are
the entire Ocean
in a drop.”
– Rumi

“He
who saves a single Life,
saves the world
entire.”
– The Talmud

My Friends,
you are far more Miraculous
than anything
you can possibly imagine.

Yes,
there is magic
in the moment
that you meet
YOU.

Incomprehensible
as we may be,
indescribable as we are
ever reaching to see,
we are still searching
to be,
understood.

“You formed my inward parts,
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You,
for I am fearfully and WONDERFULLY made.
My frame was not hidden from You,
when I was made in secret,
and skillfully wrought.”
– Psalms 139:13-15

In our virtuous quest,
we may come
one day
to rest
our weary minds.
For the Wisdom of the ages
lies within easy
reach –
within the Pages
of the Holy Bible.

“Every being exists
in intimate relation with other beings
and in constant exchange of gifts with each other.
But this relationship is BEYOND pragmatic use.
It is rather a mutual sharing of existence
in the Grand Venture
of the Universe itself.”
– Thomas Berry

               The word “Love” is inadequate.

It’s hard to say
that I’d rather stay awake
when I’m asleep,
‘Cause everything
is NEVER
as it seems.”
– Adam R. Young

  Search your Heart
in still, quiet moments
of what is left
of your brief Life.
Find the purpose
God desires,
for what you have left
to give.

It is far different
than you have imagined.
It is
larger than yourself.
It will last for Eternity.
It is
in the brevity of Life
and in the simplicity of language:
Love.

“The Universe
spills through our dreams.
The future belongs
to the most compelling story.
Even the word “Love”
is inadequate to define
the Force that wove
the fabric of
space-time.”
– Drew Dellinger

Acceptance
of God’s Love
is a gently journey.

Goodnight.

 May I highly recommend:
Robert Lotman,
Lotman Consultation Services
He is a Registered Sanitarian and Health Inspector.
I have known Robert for many years and truly admired
and respected him. He is now retired and has the time
to help others. He can assist with the following:

Safety Inspections
Environmental Inspections:
Foster Homes
Adoption Home Inspections
Daycare Inspections
Swimming Pool Inspections
Food Handler Training
Certified Pool Operator Training and
Food Service Consultations.
Robert is State Certified for Food Handler Classes,
Registered Sanitarian and
* Certified Pool Operator Instructor.

According to the World Health Organization,
drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death
in the world,
with 372,000 drowning deaths reported annually.

The Centers for Disease Control
reports that here in the United States,
on average, 3,536 people died from drowning annually
from 2005 to 2014, which equates to 10 deaths each day.
Then there are the thousands of others who suffer swimming pool-related injuries each year.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
reports that an average of 4,900 people
received emergency care for injuries
suffered in a swimming pools or spas each year
in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Swimming Pool Drowning Deaths and Kids

It’s an unbelievable statistic: According to the CDC,
drowning is the number one cause of unintentional death
for children between the ages of 1 and 4.
And according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission,
390 deaths a year on average
are attributed to drowning
in a swimming pool or at a spa in the U.S.

My Friends,
let’s take the extra precaution
of having our swimming environments inspected.
The Life you save may be the one you
cherish most in this World.

I know you will enjoy working with Robert Lotman.
The Anderson Private School
has truly benefited from his expertise.
Robert may be reached at 817-946-5952 or
robertlotman@sbcglobal.net.

      There is Beauty all around you,

IMPORTANT  DATES:
April 7               Tour of Fire Station and Fire Academy
April 14 & 17 (Friday and Monday) Good Friday and Easter Holidays
April 28             Scarborough Renaissance Festival (Weather permitting)
May 1                TUITION DUE for 2017-18
May 15 & 16      Shakespeare Production at Stage West Theater
May 22 – 26       Adventure Trip
May 26               Last Day of Semester.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statute. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.