A More Complete Picture of Reality / How Parents Can Help Children of the Pandemic Cope / School Calendar 2020-21

Precious Memories
invite us to turn the clock back
to our days growing up,
when LOVE was there,
and we felt
it could be here
for an Eternity!

To feel our Eternal Reality,
we need to
silence our thoughts.

Our True Reality can be perceived
through our Loving Heart
and peaceful mind.
Deep Meditation
and Prayer
enable us
to reveal what is truly
Real.

“. . . when thou Prayest,
enter into thy closet
and when thou has shut thy door,
Pray to thy Father
which is in secret.”
– Matthew 6:5-6

Whenever we are thinking,
we are not mentally at the place
where we are thinking.
Our thoughts
take us to another
time and another
place.

This web of illusion
we call Life and Living,
can be placed into a better perspective
when we cross over
to the boundaries
of Spiritual awareness.
.
Explanations of the Infinite
cannot be attained using
finite means.

Within the illusion of physical reality,
it is simply not possible
to truly understand
anything.
.
Physical Reality
simply
does not exist.
.
Physical reality
is what we create
within our consciousness.
It exists inside of us,
not outside.

My Dear Friends,
reality transcends all of our notions about reality.
Our thoughts change our World,
with intensity.
Our thoughts can become so powerful
that they change everything
about us.

Thoughts can fester like
an open wound
and marinate in our minds,
infecting
every emotion and behavior
until they manifest into reality.

The way we think about ourselves
turns into our reality.
Our thoughts affect reality
when we believe they do.

Our Beliefs
are us.

When we realize how powerful Belief is,
we can come to understand
how our Belief in God
transcends the illusions of Life.

When the illusions disappear,
so too do our
fears and anxieties.

Our Belief
in the Love of God,
and in our Love
for each other,
creates reality not by what we think,
but by what we feel.

Our Heart
 is one with God,
in Its entirety.
Our reality
is
a manifestation of the Love
of our Father in Heaven.
We do not just Love,
we are Love.

God’s Precious Word’s
 enable us to recognize thoughts for what they really are,
and how to act or not act
upon them.
And inner Joy and Peace of mind
can then come effortlessly,
when we Live our precious Life
with His Guidance
and His
purpose.

The Sacred Words of our Lord
will
provide Life-changing insights
on your existence
and on every thing
you experience.

Your time of suffering and pain
can lead you
to a greater experience of the World,
through the
Sacred Time and Space of Prayer.
Your Communion with God
will connect you to a reality
that transcends fear.
The Fabric of Love
transcends our Earthly matrix.
 Love
transcends any form of conscious thought.

In 1961, Eugene Wigner,
Nobel Prize winning physicist, 
outlined a thought experiment that demonstrated
a paradox of quantum mechanics. 
It shows how the very strange nature of the Universe
allows two observers to experience
different realities.

This experiment
explored the nature of measurement
 to see if objective facts
can even
exist.

At Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland
  they performed this experiment for the first time
and have created different realities and compared them.
And they concluded Wigner was correct –
realities can be made irreconcilable
so that it is impossible to agree
on objective facts.

The unique experiment reveals
that both realities can coexist
even though they produce irreconcilable outcomes,
just as Wigner predicted.

The results are forcing physicists to reconsider
the nature of reality.

Observers,
like YOU and me,
have the freedom to make whatever observations
we want.
Real Life
is not a movie you watch.
It is a movie you make.

Physicists look beyond the Human mind
for external reality,
but that reality isn’t absolute
Truth.

What is True
is whatever is True
 at one moment in Time
for one person.
Reality is subjective to each person.
 We simply cannot project our Beliefs onto others
– we simply cannot do horrible things to others
in the name of what we Believe!
If we the people understand this,
there will be much more
Peace
in the World.

To create a climate
for World Peace and understanding
we must realize
that it is our purpose,
and our role.

“Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with
ME.
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be.
With God as our Father
Brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother
In perfect harmony.”
– Jill Jackson-Miller and Sy Miller

When Jill Jackson-Miller
talked about the context of the above lyrics
that she authored,
she said:

“When I attempted suicide [in 1944]
and I didn’t succeed,
I knew for the first time
Unconditional Love –
which God is.
You are totally Loved, totally accepted,
just the way you are.
In that moment I was not allowed to die,
and something happened to me,
which is very difficult to explain.
I had an Eternal Moment of Truth,
in which I knew I was Loved,
and I knew I was here for a purpose.”

Research tells us
that objective reality does not exist.
It suggests that a physical reality we can agree on, 
the idea of locality
must be wrong.

My Dear Friends,
the next step is to go further
and realize
there is more to Life
than Life,
more to reality
than physical reality.

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth,
Horatio,
than are dreamt of
in your philosophy.”
– William Shakespeare

And what is there?

You are Eternal,
and in the death of your physical body,
you awaken to another World
that feels more real than
Human Life.

“A greater reality
underlies and enfolds the material World
that we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste.
Today, we know clearly, certainly
the nature of the greater reality and afterlife.
People just have to learn what we now know.
Those who come to know
will cease to fear death and will live together
in Peace and brotherhood.”
– greaterreality.com

We will never fully comprehend
our True nature.

God Is Incomprehensible
and Knowable
at the Same Time.

The Holy Bible
is clear
that God is ultimately
incomprehensible
to us.
We can never comprehend
His Being.

God is Infinite.
,
The Created
cannot comprehend
the Creator.

Yes,
there are Mysteries
we will never fully comprehend,
but the Light of Faith
enables us to grasp
at least part of their meaning.

Because we strive to know God,
we can pursue Truth.
Since we do not fully know God,
we will never fully understand
the World,
or the true nature of reality.
Absolute truth resides only in God.
But this does not prevent us
from seeking to understand our
World.

..“I saw every work of God,
and that a man is unable
to comprehend the work
that is done under the Sun.
Despite his efforts to search it out,
he cannot find its meaning;
even if the wise man claims to know,
he is unable to comprehend.”
– Ecclesiastes 8:17 
.
There is nothing “out there.”
It is all inside of our consciousness.
The physical Universe
simply does not exist
without you.
.
You are it,
it is you.
As we awaken we realize
that we “are” the reality
that we previously thought we existed
“in.”
Traveling in space and time
is traveling in us.

Physical reality is a
reflection,
like an image in a mirror.
We know
that to change our image in a mirror
from a frown to a smile,
we must smile first
before the mirror can reflect it back to us.
We wouldn’t reach out with our hands
and try to grab hold of the edges of our mouth
in the mirror
and turn them up.

The Philosopher George Berkeley
maintained that physical objects do not exist
independently
of the mind that perceives them.
A thing truly exists
only as long as it is observed;
otherwise,
it is not only meaningless
but simply nonexistent.
The observer and the observed
are one.

But,
by accessing a Higher level of awareness,
beyond the boundaries of
‘physical illusion’,
we escape the constraints imposed upon us
by the finite physical World.

You,
like the Infinite from which you came,
are part of an Eternal reality.
And,
like the Eternal void,
every Child of God
is filled with Infinite Love
and Infinite possibilities.

My Dear Friends,
experience deep meditation
and Prayer
as a profound silence
beyond
all words, thoughts, feelings, and sensations –
“The still point of the turning World,”
as T. S. Eliot called it.

Philosophers and poets and sages
throughout all of our Human history,
have valued the experience
of being in touch
with the source
of their Consciousness.

Those in times passed
gained access to Spiritual Dimensions
by deep meditation and Prayer,
to the World beyond the physical.
And,
they attained a more complete picture
of reality.

The Human Being
is an amazing, brilliantly designed
Spiritual Organism,
having a Human experience
and
capable of stunning and amazing feats
of conscious expansion.
Many
attest to the Miracles of Meditation
and Prayer,
and how it has changed
their precious Lives.

Search the internet
for Prayer and medicine,
and you’ll find plenty of scientific studies
that confirm what the Christian community
has known for thousands of years
… that Prayer works.

“I gotta take a little time,
A little time to think things over.
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I’m older.
Now this mountain I must climb.
Feels like a World upon my shoulders,
And through the clouds I see Love shine.
It keeps me warm as Life grows colder.
In my Life there’s been heartache and pain.
I don’t know if I can face it again.
Can’t stop now,
I’ve traveled so far.
To change this lonely Life
I wanna know what Love is
I want you to show me.”
– Mick Jones

Perceive this moment,
be a part of the reality
revealed
through your
Love.

Walk in Nature
with your Sacred Lord.
Look to the Light.
There you are!
Beautiful.
Your Love is so very
Beautiful.
It is the Light
that shines in your
Heart.

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

Goodnight.

How Parents Can Help Children of the Pandemic Cope
By Jeanne Erdmann
discovermagazine.com

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Kids are facing plenty of emotional challenges these days. Isolation from friends, remote learning, the loss of the structured school day and the loss of easy access to school counselors.

The stressors we’re all facing reach beyond fear of getting sick from COVID-19, and kids are no different. The toll the disease has taken on the economy, housing, food security and our daily routines of school and work shred our sense of safety and security — the foundation for mental well-being. These pressures make children especially vulnerable to mental health issues, psychiatrist Sara Vinson told attendees at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ virtual summit on Infectious Disease in November 2020.

“So much of what we ask of children — going to school, being engaged — requires them to believe that they are going to grow up and be an adult; that they have a future,” says Vinson, a psychiatrist at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Emory University School of Medicine, because the sense of control over how their future is going to look depends on feeling safe and secure.

At the summit, Elizabeth Stuart, a mental health researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said there’s not enough good data on children’s mental health during the pandemic because most surveys are done on adults. And even without surveys, Vinson and others are seeing an increase in anxiety, depression, and thoughts about suicide in children and adolescents.

The Family Meltdown

Stressed out kids show some of the same warning signs as adults do — like isolation and withdrawing from friends or activities. In general, parents or caregivers should watch for changes in a child’s behavior that are not normal for them, says Amy Geinert, a counselor at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. For example, if your child went from being diligent about schoolwork to avoiding online classes because of feeling overwhelmed.

Some kids might tell parents what’s bothering them, while others may act out or complain about headaches or stomach aches. Some may sleep too much, or too little. Younger children may become extra clingy, have more tantrums or cry more. Some risk factors can increase the risk of suicide in kids, such as feeling like they are too much of a burden. This blog post from CHOC Children’s, the Children’s Hospital of Orange County, offers tips to recognize those signs.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends talking to children openly and honestly about the pandemic because avoiding these conversations does not protect them. And don’t bother trying to hide your own worries, because kids pick up on everything. “It’s one of their magical powers,” says Alejandra Gonzalez Rodriguez, a family and marriage therapist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Just make sure that what you are sharing is age – appropriate. “You don’t want to tell your 10-year-old that you are having significant financial issues,” she says.

And, if in a weak moment, what you share with your children happens to be your own tantrum, it’s important to recognize what’s happened and just apologize, says Gonzalez Rodriguez. You’ll soothe the child’s feelings, and also show them that healthy relationships ebb and flow between conflict and healing.

Mending the Frayed Safety Net

Unfortunately, at a time when we need to blow off steam, our ways to cope are limited. Finding activities that promote well-being isn’t complicated. Just ask your children what they want to do together as a family, whether that’s cuddling, holding a movie night, or cooking grandma’s favorite recipe. Parents may take these things for granted, but traditions and rituals mean a lot to kids, says Gonzalez Rodriguez.

Also, ask kids what they like to do when they’re not feeling well. To identify those moments, Gonzalez Rodriguez suggests filling out what’s called a feelings thermometer, which helps children (and adults), recognize and speak about their emotions.

Parents can also try exercises like belly breathing and grounding, which, for example, asks kids to look around them and find three 3 green objects. This technique helps shift the focus away from anxious thoughts, but does take practice to have a calming effect, says Gonzalez Rodriguez.

Music can also soothe or entertain. Adam Parker, a school psychologist in the Cherry Creek School District near Denver, takes a fun approach to the social and emotional challenges of being stuck at home. His series of videos on YouTube tackles topics like doubt, grit, and empathy with songs and interviews.

Taking the Next Step Forward

While there are at-home remedies for symptoms of anxiety and depression, reach out to a therapist when your efforts aren’t working. Remember to include yourself, if necessary. “Plenty of parents will seek help for their kids and ignore their own mental health needs,” says Katherine Nelson, an assistant professor of counseling at the University of North Dakota.

There’s still a stigma attached to seeking professional help. Mental health is something people think they can manage on their own, says Nelson. Parents may also feel uncertain or fearful about what seeking mental health means, such as worrying something may be wrong with them, or worrying that seeking help for their kids may reflect poorly on them as a parent, she says. “It takes a lot of strength to ask for help, and it’s also scary,” says Nelson, who also urges us to be OK with the fact that everything has changed.

In fact, finding ways to stay positive — as challenging as that is these days — helps build resilience, in part, by how we frame the stories that we tell ourselves, says Gonzalez Rodriguez. While this may sound abstract, how we look at adversity helps or harms our ability to overcome problems. If we tell our kids that we can overcome the pandemic, then that’s the narrative they will have, she says.

Remember, too that kids bounce back. Even with the scary unknowns about the pandemic, we can still move forward, and perhaps be stronger because of the experience, says Geinert.

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Thank you.

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(to be announced later) for In-service Training.
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for updated information.

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Embracing Our Legacy of Love / Knowledge That Might Save Your Life / School Calendar 2020-21

“We shall not
cease from exploration,
and the end
of all our exploring
will be to arrive
where we started
and know the place
for the first Time.”
– T. S Eliot

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 The compassion
in your expressions
can wrap words
around your Soul.

If you Live
in Beautiful thoughts,
your words and your deeds
will bring soothing
comfort
with the music
of your mind.

Deep and penetrating thoughts
of Love
are like a balm on our wounds.
They bring Healing and Peace
to our troubled times.
They take us to a different Dimension,
to another World
where everything can
finally
be understood,
and calm prevail,
and Life be
accepted.

Your kind words
and compassionate deeds
touch others so very deeply.
 You
are able
to become one of the Miraculous
Mysteries of Life
and Living.
Your compassion
can fill another precious Life
with Beautiful emotion
and precious memory.
Your dedication
to help others in need,
can influence them
in such a way
that no words will be able
to describe
what you
become.
The words and music
of your Love
for others
can transition you
from a Living body,
to a Living
Spirit.

Embracing
our Legacy of Love
on this Earth
can lift our Being
and raise us up
Spiritually.
And we do so
by knowing
what happens to the Human Heart,
when the Human Mind
Blossoms
into a Beautiful Flower
with the fragrance
of Love.

To decide
to Live in Love,
converts the language of the Mind,
to the language of the Heart.
.
Yes,
in the prisons of our Minds
we are friendly
with the guardians
of our bodies.
But,
are we really Witness
to what happens in the
Heart?

Every little Child
is truly a Poet,
bringing everything hidden,
in emotion and memory,
to Life
and Light.

My Dear Friends,
the material Blessings we enjoy
from day to day
are temporary.
But the Spiritual Blessings 
encompass Time
unto Eternity.

God’s Blessings
are meant to protect us and guide us
and give us Hope.
The Holy Bible
reminds us of the many Blessings
 we can claim as a
Child of God.

For Peace to prevail
on this fragile and very, very violent Planet,
a grown man
must in his Heart
become a little boy,
a genuine Child and Man
in one adult body.

“Truly
I say to you,
unless you are converted
and become like Children,
you shall NOT enter the Kingdom
of Heaven.”
– Matthew 18:3

If
you are filled with uncertainty,
 if you don’t even know
how to feel right now,
know
that you can feel.
And what you can feel,
you have felt
before.
Loving memories
unlock
Loving moments
to be.

Lonely Souls
are far from alone
in the here of now,
this
moment of your Being,
when you are speaking sweetly
through the window of your Mind,
from the Tower of your
Soul.

The tears
that lubricate our eyes,
can penetrate directly to the
Heart.
.
But,
our feelings
can also be flying with the Beautiful birds,
immersed in the Infinite Beauty
of the Whole of our Being,
feeling touched with gratitude
for Existence,
by Loving others
in so many ways.

.Yes,
we can go through this Life
blinded by our own thoughts.

But please know,
that every Day of Life
can be a wonderful adventure.
Know
that you are Loved,
you are Blessed,
your Dreams are manifesting
in every moment.
Time really is on your side.
Everything has a way
to work out in your favor,
when
you ask for
the Favor of God.

“When Peace
like a River
Attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll,
Whatever my lot
Thou has taught me to say
It is well,
It is well with my Soul.“
– Horatio Spafford

There is something
Holy flowing in your Life.
You can have the Favor of God,
if you simply ask God
for His Favor.

“But let all those that put their Trust in Thee
rejoice:
let them ever shout for Joy,
because Thou defendest them:
let them also that Love Thy Name
be Joyful in Thee. 
For Thou, Lord, wilt Bless the Righteous;
with Favor
wilt Thou compass him
as with a shield.”
– Psalm 5:11-12
.
You will find
Love and Peace,
IF
you keep searching
in your Heart,
keep shining your Light
in this World.
.
And please remember,
someone
needs you
and needs your Love.
You pass them by
every day.
.
Goodnight.

People Share A Random Piece Of Knowledge
That Might Save Your Life One Day
from: humaverse.com
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It’s easy to take random pieces of knowledge for granted, especially if you feel they won’t ever apply to you. But never say never—honestly, in this life, anything goes, and we can never tell with absolute certainty whether a particular occurrence will happen to us or not. That’s why it’s important to soak in all of the advice you receive. It never hurts to be prepared for any case scenario. People across the world took the internet to share a random piece of knowledge that they believe might save your life one day. Most of these nuggets of wisdom were based on real-life experiences, so there is definitely merit to them. Read on and educate yourself—you never know if you’ll end up having to deal with one or more these situations in the future:

Don’t forget to check the comment section below the article for more interesting stories!

#1 Fishy Smell

A few months ago I had a fishy smell in my living room. It took me a week to find it. Turned out, one of my outlets on the wall had burned. Thank goodness it wasn’t worse or the whole house could’ve gone up. Usually, an off-smell indicates that there’s a problem.

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#2 Leave A Trail

Polar bears have insane ADHD. If one is chasing you, intermittently drop clothing items like a hat or gloves. It will stop to sniff them. Normal prey animals don’t shed whole pieces of themselves: the bear will be perplexed. Also, in the Arctic, if you sweat, you will not make it. The sweat will freeze in your clothing, which will induce hypothermia much faster. And since you can’t get them dry, you’re basically screwed.

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#3 Location Is Key

If you call 911, always say WHERE the problem is first, followed by the problem. If you happen to get cut off before you can say what the problem is, at least the dispatcher has a location to send an officer to check it out and advise if more police or fire is needed.  Location, location, location.

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#4 Always Call An Ambulance

Maybe not your life, but someone else’s. If you’re having a party, regardless of nature, and someone needs to go to the hospital, CALL AN AMBULANCE. There are laws to protect you, but getting a citation is a lot less trouble than having someone lose their life in your home. The same goes if you’re attending the party. Don’t worry about the homeowners and tenants, worry about the person whose life is at risk.

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#5 As Long As You’re Safe

My friend was carjacked. The guy told her to start driving, so she did… right into a cement pillar. The airbag hit the guy and he broke his arm. She ran into the store while he was disoriented. She kept hitting the lock button on her key fob to keep him in the car until the cops showed up.  Insurance elected to raise on her because of the “accident,” though, so that may not be the best way to handle it. But honestly, as long as she got out safe, what else matters?

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#6 Firefighter Training

If there is a fire, crawl out of the building. Do not stand up to run—one or two intakes of the plume are enough to do major damage and require hospitalization. It may be warm where you are crawling, but standing up can cook your skin (and your lungs). The plumes at “eye-level” can be more than 600°C. If you can’t see and don’t know the room layout, crawl with your feet or legs in front of you. Do not crawl face first, or you may take a dive down a staircase in the confusion.

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#7 The Importance of Pull-Ups

If you can’t do a pull-up, you probably won’t have the strength to pull yourself up off a ledge. That has stuck with me ever since. In theory, it’s very true… but I would guess most people could if some serious adrenaline is involved. Yesterday, someone posted a LiveLeak video of people who were doing parkour on high rise buildings. Some of them ended up falling. I don’t know why I watched it, but it was interesting—some of those people would do like, three pull-ups before losing their grip. So, it seems like if you can’t do a pull up where you pull yourself up to your waist, you may still be screwed.

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#8 Tigers And Wolves

The instinct of wolves will only cause them to attack or hunt you if they can intimidate you into fleeing from them. Standing your ground against a wolfpack will be terrifying, but will eventually cause them to bugger off. Tigers as well. Don’t turn your eyes away from a tiger. There is a story of a boy who had to walk backward for three hours back to his village while being stalked by a tiger. The cost-benefit of a prey animal even slightly hurting a tiger is not worth it. It could mean an end sentence in the wild.

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#9 Check For Depth

That water you’re about to dive into might not be as deep as you think. Always step in and swim down to check for depth, then jump. My dad told me a story about a group of guys he knew from school. After graduation, they all went up to someone’s lake house and one guy decided to dive off the dock as soon as they got there. The water was shallow that year and when he dove in, he broke his neck and lost his life on impact.

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#10 In The Event Of A Tsunami

If the tide suddenly goes out unexpectedly, run as if you stole it, for higher ground.  I read about a ten-year-old English girl who had just learned this before going on vacation with her family to Thailand. The big tsunami that ended a few hundred thousand came. She saw the water retreat and the other tourists walked out on the exposed seafloor. She freaked out and convinced everybody to run for higher ground. A lot of people were saved by a little girl who had paid attention in school.

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#11 Rabies Are No Joke

If you are ever bitten by a bat, raccoon, fox, or skunk go directly to the hospital. There is no cure for rabies once it is fully onset. Out of all history, only five people survived rabies from the full onset, and Meredith Palmer was one of the five.

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#12 Moose Chase

If you’re ever charged by a moose, get behind a tree. They have about a ten-inch blind spot and they’ll lose you. That’s what ski patrol would always say when there was an increase in moose sightings on the mountain. They’d tell you to stay out of the trees when skiing… unless a moose is running at you. In such a case, you’d want to find trees because, unless you’ve got a steep hill or are already up to speed, the moose is probably faster than you think.

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#13 Chewing Aspirin

When people say to take an aspirin to help during a heart attack, chew the pill, don’t swallow it whole. It gets absorbed much quicker. Also, if at all possible, cough hard in the same rhythm as your heart would normally be beating. The constriction in the chest can help prolong passing out long enough to get help.

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#14 Keep Eye Contact

If a person asks you for something in the street—a light, the time, whatever—always keep the person in your sight. So, if they ask for the time, don’t just look down at your watch. Raise your arm slightly so your watch is in your sight. I was told this years ago at a self-defense workshop. I wondered if it was ever going to be useful or just something to pad out the teacher’s session.

Then, a decade later, I was on the street late at night on my way home, and someone approached me to ask for the time. I did this, told him the time, and he just kind of stood there. Then, he started asking some weird, clearly improvised question about how he was looking for his friend’s house, and he was sure it was on that street, and he had a “yellow vehicle” similar to the one behind me. I didn’t look back but just said, “Yeah, yellow, uh-huh” as he pointed directly behind me.

I said, “Yeah, the yellow car, I saw it as I walked by, so?” He paused for a second, looking like that meme of the woman with the equations around her head, then just yelled “Oh, SCREW YOU.” and stormed off. It was only afterward I realized that I think he wanted me to look away so he could slug me, but he wasn’t prepared to attack someone that was looking right at him.

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#15 Buried Alive

If you’ve been buried alive in a standard coffin, stay calm. If you are still alive, you haven’t been buried that long. Also, the dirt above you hasn’t set yet. Most coffins are not built to last once buried and as a result have weak siding. So here is what you do: Pull your shirt over your head. You don’t want to be swallowing the dirt. Position yourself so you are as sideways in the coffin as possible with your hands and feet pushing on the long sides. PUSH. You should be able to blow out one of the walls. Then, start crawling up. Do not panic. You may not find a grip immediately. Keep going until you make it out.

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#16 De-Victimize Yourself

Always leave your itinerary with someone. If you meet strangers—that is, potential bad people—on the road, always let them know that you are in touch with friends and family and that they know exactly where you are. You become less attractive as a victim. Also, let them know that you have a destination and are expected at a particular time, too.

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#17 Tornado Tip

If you’re unsure about the movement of a tornado, put a straight object such as a tree or a street light in between you and the tornado. It’ll make it way easier to see which way the tornado is moving. If the tornado appears to not be moving, it’s coming right at you.  Usually, the only reference you will have is the width. If it doesn’t appear to be moving but is getting wider, it’s coming towards you; at which point you’ll want to move perpendicular to its movement.

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#18 Neutral Brakes

If your car suddenly accelerates beyond control and the brakes are unresponsive, shift the car in to neutral and slowly apply the brakes. This situation happened to a family in California some years ago. They had no idea what to do and tragically lost their lives.

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#19 Forget Being Polite

EMT here! If you’re ever choking on food in a public venue, DO NOT go to the restroom to avoid causing a scene. Almost every tragedy I’ve seen from people choking involves finding the victims unconscious in a bathroom stall because they were too polite to seek help. I feel like if there’s any situation in which it’s okay to not be polite, it’s when you’re choking.

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#20 Get Screened

One out of 20 people will get bowel cancer in their lifetime. You need some sort of screening starting at age 45 to 50, depending on your family history. Any blood in the stool needs to be checked out. Early cancers can be completely cured with keyhole surgery. You don’t have to fall victim to bowel cancer. In Australia, when you turn 50, the government starts sending you free testing kits every two years.

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#21 The Sun’s Glare

For pedestrians crossing the street: if you can see the sun’s reflection on the windshield of a car, there’s a good chance the driver can not see you. If your shadow points toward the car, the same applies. Basically, always assume the driver can’t see you. You might not feel like it’s “right” and that you have the right of way, but on the other hand, you’ll be alive to complain about it.

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#22 Just Wreck-It

If you’ve been carjacked and the carjacker tells you to just drive, take whatever chance you get to wreck. At a minimum, you’re getting emergency services involved (meaning it’s more likely they’ll be caught), and there’s a chance you’ll incapacitate or even end the carjacker. Just tighten your seatbelt beforehand to increase your chances of survival. Of course, there’s also a chance that you might not survive, but, if they’re taking you to a second location, odds are you probably weren’t going to come back anyway.

 

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#23 Self-Heimlich

If you’re choking with nobody around to give you the Heimlich, you can give yourself the Heimlich by using the back of a chair (or similar objects like the sidearm of a couch, or whatever). Forcefully throw your stomach over the back of the chair a few times, try to mimic the motion of the Heimlich: push in above the belly button, then up… kind of like a “J” motion.

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#24 Just Float On

If you fall into cold open water, resist the urge to swim and try to float until the onset of panic subsides. Once you have your breathing under control, you can then start to swim to safety. By doing this, you will not hyperventilate and avoid potentially drowning. Also, to float: slowly lift your legs up, keep your arms out at the water’s surface and lean your head back. Yes, you will get water in your ears, just let it be.

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#25 Dealing With A Missing Person

Contrary to common myth, you can file a missing person report before 24 hours have passed. Putting it off a day because they went missing that night could very easily be the difference between them being found or not.

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#26 First Aid And CPR

 Everyone should have basic first aid and CPR training, if possible. My dad collapsed on Saturday morning when he got up to go to the toilet and neither I or my mom knew basic first aid or CPR. The ambulance took eight minutes to arrive and we only live four streets away from the depot. Luckily, he came too, but there was a point where he stopped breathing. If he continued to not breathe for eight minutes, it would have been too late. Please learn and hope you don’t need it, instead of needing it and not knowing.

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#27 Car Going Under

If your car is going underwater, an electronic “roll-down” button will work regardless of the water pressure outside the car. However, a manual handle is much more difficult (you also won’t be able to open the door). It’s better to have something in the glove box (like an ice scraper) to break the window glass with.

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#28 Exit Strategy

When you go into a building, look for an exit that is not the one you used to come in. In an emergency, most people will head out their original exit, but you will head out of the exit less traveled… and it may make all the difference. This happened at the Great White Show. People got wedged in the exit they entered through. Meanwhile, other people just easily walked out using the other exits.

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#29 Just Let It Go

Let it go. Don’t let road rage influence your behavior. It’s not worth it. Take a deep breath, count to 10. Take your foot off the pedal. Disengage. It’s not worth it.  This sounds like a joke, but the most soul-crushing moment I had while driving was when someone shook their head at me in disappointment because I was blocking a small road due to my own impatience.

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#30 The Sleep Trick

A friend who grew up in a “rough” neighborhood taught me this one: if you’re on a bus and robbers get on, you have a chance of not having your stuff taken or being bothered at all if you pretend to be asleep. The robbers have to keep their eyes on a lot of people at once to prevent anyone from calling the police, or prevent the driver from signaling distress somehow, and prevent all passengers from reacting in dangerous ways. If you’re asleep, that’s one person less for a robber to manage, so they may not bother to wake you up.

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#31 Be More Specific

If you are in danger or in need of help in a public place, it’s almost always a bad idea to just yell “help.” It’s more important to be specific. Pointing at someone and telling them to call 911 will be more effective. The Bystander Effect can be terrible sometimes. On a related note for adults: if someone tries to get into a vehicle you’re driving, like at a stoplight or a parking lot, punch the gas. Do not drive to wherever this person is telling you to go. Hit whatever is in front or behind you (unless it’s a person, don’t hit a person). A car, a wall, what have you. Accidents draw people and thereby more witnesses.

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#32 On Blood Thinners

If you’re taking blood thinners, you should know they increase the risks of bleeding. You should watch out for signs of bleeding like pallor, breathlessness, multiple rashes, bleeding gums, etc. If you accidentally cut yourself, take great care of the cut—you could bleed out if you don’t. At the pharmacy today, a regular patient passed away because she got a cut on her leg while gardening, but didn’t think much about it. Since she was on blood thinners, she bled out during the night.

 

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#33 Seatbelts And Helmets

Wear a helmet, wear a seatbelt. It may not be cool, but you’re more fragile than you lead yourself to believe. I’ve lost three friends because they didn’t wear the appropriate gear or follow simple safety practices. Don’t be a statistic, please. There’s someone out there who would miss you and think, “I just wish they had put a helmet or seatbelt on.”

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#34 Avoid Electrical Objects

When touching some thing electrical, use the back of your hand. Using your palm on, say, a live wire will cause your hand to grab it and you be unable to let go. Then again, as an electrician, just don’t grab electrical things at all. Let me do it, instead. We have meters and detectors that can sense electricity before anyone ever has to touch it. The price of a service call isn’t worth your life. Electricity will end you and will hurt the whole time that you are being electrocuted.

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#35 Downhill To Safety

Bears can climb trees but have trouble running downhill as they gain too much speed. If you’re being chased by a bear, head for a hill rather than up a tree. Or, better yet, know the signs of a bear and have bear spray if you, you know, like wandering around where there are bears. Watch out for black bears, specifically.  They can come in basically every color and shade that human hair can naturally appear. Brown, reddish-brown, black, even blond (though straight-up black is the most common by far). If it’s black, don’t climb. You’d be better off trying to intimidate it.

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#36 Practicing Blindfolded

Blindfold yourself and try to find the way out of your own house. You will be surprised how hard it is to find the stairs etc. Practicing this once every three months will allow you to find your way out in case your house is filled with plumes from a fire (which can happen within a minute).

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#37 Lock Your Doors

Lock all your doors when you’re in the house. No neighborhood is 100 percent safe. No kidding. I work a night shift and was up at 3 a.m. watching TV. All the lights in the living room were on. This was like, a beacon for people looking to rob houses as they thought the owners left the lights on to go on vacation. I had some guy knock on my front door to see if anyone was home before he busted in. I then heard the handle jiggle.

Needless to say, he was quite surprised when I responded along with three great Danes. It was more than he bargained for and he tried to play it off like he needed a ride into town. I live in a rural area and there isn’t a neighbor within a quarter-mile of me, let alone any sort of business. My wife called the cops but he disappeared before they got there.

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#38 Sepsis Scares

When you cut yourself as a kid, your parents always washed and cleaned the wound, then put antiseptic on it before putting a plaster (band-aid) on it. They did it for a very good reason. You should always treat every cut—no matter how superficial—with the same degree of care. No one should never mess around with sepsis. It’s a horrible thing to experience, and an even worse thing to go out on.

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#39 Determining Priorities

I’d say the survival rule of three: humans can survive three weeks without food, three days without water, three hours without shelter, and three minutes without oxygen. It helps you get your priorities straight, should it come to it.

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#40 Never Relocate

If someone threatens you with violence and orders you to move you to another location, your chance of getting hurt goes up considerably if you agree to relocate. My father was an assistant DA who worked with homicide. He gave me this advice over and over. Years later, someone climbed in my car and threatened me. He told me to drive. And… I said no. I took the keys out and threw them. It wasn’t a conscious decision. My dad had just hammered his advice in so hard that it switched on. The guy got out without saying a word and ran.

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#41 Stunt Man Advice

If you have to get out of a moving car, put one foot down and take a step. Don’t just jump out. This will reduce your speed immensely. Sure, you will fall over, but at a much-reduced speed. A stunt man told me this. I had to leave a moving car that was going about 40mph… I was pregnant. I had a medium-sized purse and a pillow. The man driving the car had said he was going to end us both if he couldn’t have me and was going in and out of oncoming traffic. I grabbed my bag and pillow and held the pillow across my stomach while I opened the door. I then stepped out and let myself roll. It was amazing! I ended up with just a handful of bruises and scrapes and I was fine. My daughter is 14 now. We made it.

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#42 Predator Kill Zone

If you notice a lack of small creatures or woodlands animals nearby, most fear human interaction but you’ll know they’re there. But if it is noticeably empty, then you’re likely in a predator kill zone. Similarly, if you see a lot of vultures circling, it can mean a lifeless animal or a predator animal cache. So be aware of this when you’re in the outdoors.

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#43 Attracted To The Sting

Beekeeper here. For honey bees, it’s a sting that attracts them. If you get stung, they release a pheromone that tells the other bees to sting the same place. Cover the spot with your hand or rub it with something that has a strong smell. Just not something that smells like banana. The chemical that makes the banana smell is the same as bees’ alarm pheromone. If you smell bananas when you’re working your bees, you’ve upset them.

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#44 Household Chemistry

Never use bleach and ammonia-based cleaning products at the same time or in the same room. A combination of both their vapors creates chloramine vapor, which can end you if you inhale it. Check your cleaning supplies to see what’s in the, especially toilet and tile cleaners.

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#45 Dodging Rhinos

If a rhino is running towards you, wait until the last second, then step out of the way. Rhinos cannot make sudden turns and will give you a couple of seconds of a head start to run in the other direction. Repeat as necessary!

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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.

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                We journey together, never alone.

 

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The Eternal Reality / Through Your Child’s Eyes / Friday: At School (Shakespeare Play Preparation)

To know of the Eternal Reality,
silence your thoughts.

Reality can be perceived
through a clear and peaceful mind.
Deep Meditation and Prayer
enables us
to reveal what is truly
Real.

“. . . when thou Prayest,
enter into thy closet
and when thou has shut thy door,
Pray to thy Father
which is in secret.”
– Matthew 6:5-6

Whenever we are thinking,
we are not mentally at the place
where we are thinking.
Our thoughts
take us to another
time and place.

When we confront this
web of illusion
we call Life and living,
we come closer to the boundaries
of Spiritual awareness.
And
we realize more and more
that explanations of the Infinite
cannot be attained using
finite means.

Within the illusion of physical reality,
it is not possible
using its own internal methods and concepts
to fully understand it.
By accessing a higher level of awareness,
beyond the boundaries of
‘physical illusion’,
we escape constraints imposed upon us
by the finite physical World.

           A more complete picture.

You,
like the Infinite from which you came,
are part of an Eternal reality.
And,
like the Eternal void,
every Child of God
is filled with Infinite Love
and Infinite possibilities.

My Dear Friends,
experience deep meditation
and Prayer
as a profound silence
beyond all words, thoughts, feelings, and sensations –
“The still point of the turning World,”
as T. S. Eliot called it.

Philosophers and poets and sages
throughout all of our Human history,
have valued the experience
of being in touch
with the source
of their Consciousness.

        To another time and place.

Those in times passed
gained access to Spiritual Dimensions
by deep meditation and Prayer,
to a perspective beyond the physical.
And,
they attained a more complete picture
of reality.
The Human Being
is an amazing, brilliantly designed
Spiritual Organism,
capable of stunning and amazing feats
of conscious expansion.
Many
attest to the Miracles of Meditation
and Prayer,
and how it has changed
their lives.

“I gotta take a little time,
A little time to think things over.
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I’m older.
Now this mountain I must climb.
Feels like a World upon my shoulders,
And through the clouds I see Love shine.
It keeps me warm as Life grows colder.
In my Life there’s been heartache and pain.
I don’t know if I can face it again.
Can’t stop now,
I’ve traveled so far.
To change this lonely Life
I wanna know what Love is
I want you to show me.”
– Mick Jones
play song

To perceive this moment,
be a part of the reality
revealed
through your Love.

Walk in Nature
with your Lord.
Look to the Light.
There you are!
Beautiful.
Your Love is so Beautiful.
It is the Light
that shines in your
Heart.

Goodnight.

See the World through your child’s eyes
by

Elizabeth Elizardi M.Ed., MAPP

                     in Psychology Today
read more

When our children talk to us, or present us with challenging behavior, our natural instinct is to dive in and fix problems – or fix our children.

We talk too much, and we become autobiographical.

Everything we say is from our own point of view. Our natural reactions are rarely understanding – yet that is what our children need from us.

If our children are experiencing emotions that are ‘inconvenient’ to us and that may be challenging, the most effective thing we can do is respond to their distress with emotional first-aid.

When we enter a child’s World and empathically reflect their feelings, they regulate their emotions more quickly, they feel safer, and they also understand that what they are experiencing is normal.

In Philosophy
this week:

2018-19 Anderson School Calendar

Second Semester

January 8 – May 24   2019

April 12                                              At School (Shakespeare Production Preparation)

April 19 & 22 (Fri. & Mon.)                Good Friday & Easter Holidays

April 30, (Tuesday)                            Scarborough Renaissance Festival

May 1                                               Tuition balance due for 2019-2020

May 20                                               Prep. Day for Adventure Trip        …………………………………………………….(no school)

May 21 – 24                                        Adventure Trip (Austin, Texas)

May 24                                                Last Day of Semester

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.

(Calendar 2018-2019 / approved 7-29-18)

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 1995-2019
The Anderson Private School.

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We Reflections of Sacred Geometry / What is the Meaning of Life? / 2018-19 School Calendar

 

Previously posted on April 7, 2015

Dedicated to my very dear friend,
Dr. Nelson F. Eichman.
How do you put into words how you feel
for the man you most admire in this world.
A Man for All Seasons,
An Inspiration and a wonderful, trusted Friend.
On his Sacred Mission
To Help Us, One and All,
He truly Succeeded.
Your Life Is such a Beautiful Blessing
To everyone.
We Love you
and
Thank You.

            We cannot imagine as dreams come true.

We are not
Who we seem to be,
We,
Reflections of
Sacred Geometry.

                    Extraordinary, the creation of man

Loved into being,
God whispered your name.
Breath of Life
Loving thought,
Tender deed,
Were you created,
Became.

Extraordinary,
The creation of man.
From the dust of the ground
A living, breathing being,
A Soul,
Loving and Loved,
A Child of God,
A Man.
(Genesis 2:7)

The Heart Divine no longer remembers, set free from deep regrets.

God Blesses each of us,
As He Dreams away our lives.
And Forever is a day,
As it is Given,
We are born again,
Me and you,
Into the next life,
Such that we cannot imagine
As dreams come true.

Forever In the Bright Morning Light Of God’s Eternal Love.

While you dream,
You know not
That you are Dreaming.
And awake,
May be living a Dream.

                      We are not who we seem to be.

We sculpt the future
With our imagination,
What we perceive to be.
And by our transgressions,
Forget that I am me.

In the act of forgiving
The mind is Blessed,
As it forgets.
The Heart Divine
No longer remembers,
Set free from deep regrets.

           We sculpt the future with our imagination.

The Love of God
Is like a raging
River of Light,
Carrying Salvation
Into the dark
Pit of Night.

           Loving and Loved, a Child of God, a Man.

So this life, this Dream,
From which we awake one day,
Will find us forgiven,
Should we ask to be,
And forever
In the Bright Morning Light
Of God’s Eternal Love.

And breathless will we be,
In Love
With Love,
Eternally.

Goodnight.

                                    Forever is a day.

What is the Meaning of Life?
by Australian Biologist Jeremy Griffith
read more

Science has finally enabled us
to lift the so-called ‘burden of guilt’ from the Human race;
in fact, to understand that we thinking,
‘knowledge’ – finding, conscious Humans
are actually nothing less than
the Heroes of the Story of Life on Earth!

This is because our fully conscious mind is surely
Nature’s greatest invention
and to have had to endure the torture of being
unjustly condemned as evil for so long
(the anthropological evidence indicates we humans have been fully conscious for some two million years)
must make us the absolute Heroes of the Story of Life on Earth.

Finally,
God and man, Religion and science, our instinct and intellect,
the integrative meaning of life
and the inconsistency of our behavior with that meaning,
are all reconciled.

This explanation of the Human condition is redeeming
and thus rehabilitating,
all our upset angry, egocentric and alienated behavior
now subsides, bringing about the complete
TRANSFORMATION OF THE HUMAN RACE
– and importantly, understanding of the Human condition
doesn’t condone ‘bad’ behavior,
it heals
and by so doing ends it.

From being competitive, selfish and aggressive,
Humans return to being cooperative, selfless and
Loving.

Our round of departure has ended.
The poet T.S. Eliot wonderfully articulated
our species’ journey
from an original innocent, yet ignorant, state,
to a psychologically upset ‘fallen’, corrupted state,
and back to an uncorrupted, but this time enlightened,
state when he wrote:

‘We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.”
– Little Gidding, 1942

Finding the exonerating, redeeming understanding of our dark, psychologically upset, meaning of life-defying, Human-condition-afflicted existence finally enables the Human race
to be healed
and thus TRANSFORMED
– it makes us ‘whole’ again, as Carl Jung said it would.

To quote Professor Harry Prosen,
a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association,
on this dreamed-of,
greatest of all breakthroughs in science:

‘I have no doubt this Biological explanation
of the Human condition
is the Holy Grail of insight
we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation
of the Human race’
(FREEDOM, 2016, Introduction)

read more

2018-19 Anderson School Calendar

First Semester

September 4 – December 21   2018

Sept. 4 (Tuesday)                              First Day of First Semester

Oct 8 (Monday)                                 Columbus Day Holiday

Nov. 19 – 23                                       Thanksgiving / Fall Break

T. B. A.                                              Texas A.G.T. Conference (no school)

Dec. 21 (Friday)                                 Last Day of Fall Semester

Dec. 24 – Jan. 7                                  Winter Break Holidays

Second Semester

January 8 – May 24   2019

Jan. 8 (Tuesday)                                 Second Semester begins

Jan. 21 (Monday)                               Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Holiday

Feb. 18 (Monday)                               President’s Day Holiday

Mar. 11 -15                                         Spring Break Holidays

April 19 & 22 (Fri. & Mon.)                 Good Friday & Easter Holidays

May 20                                                Prep. Day for Adventure Trip                                                                       (no    school)

May 21 – 24                                        Adventure Trip

May 24                                                Last Day of Semester

  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.

(Calendar 2018-2019 / approved 7-29-18)

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The Memory, the Magic, the Mystery / The Healing Power of Laughter / Sept. 4: Classes resume

                 Endless in its Beauty

At every crossroad
we have a choice.
We travel in one
direction
or another,
never knowing
we are all lost
in the vast void
of timeless space.

Timeless
in the moment,
without form
in the now
to be,
and truly ageless
in our search for Love,
our Love for Life,
and for one another.

“The end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place
for the first time.”
– T. S. Eliot
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And then one day
we come to see
God,
in His Love
for all there ever was,
and all there is
to ever be.

We each live
for but a moment,
just one brief moment,
the moment
when we realize
the Heart of God
beats within
every lonely
Life
in search of Love,
and longing
to be.

       Dog-leaping Happiness                        (Our precious Lila, shortly before she departed us in this Life)

In the Sacred Time
of that moment
lives the memory,
the magic,
the Mystery
of Life
and Living.

“I am almost a hundred years old;
waiting for the end,
and thinking about the beginning.

Meg Rosoff

There are things I need to tell you,
but would you listen if I told you
how quickly time passes?

I know you are unable to imagine this.

Nevertheless,
I can tell you that you will awake someday
to find that your life
has rushed by at a speed
at once impossible and cruel.

The most intense moments
will seem to have occurred only yesterday
and nothing
will have erased the pain and pleasure,
the impossible intensity of Love
and its dog-leaping Happiness,
the bleak blackness of passions unrequited,
or unexpressed, or unresolved.”
– Meg Rosoff

                  Endless in its Beauty.

My Dear Friends,
the Love of God
will never let you go.
In His Arms
you can never
be alone.

His Love
bears the Torch
to Light the Way.
It restores
all Life
to another day.

Do not let
your thoughts
close the door
to your precious Heart,
for only it may see
the Rainbow
through a rain of tears
that promises
not in vain,
to return God’s Love
again and again.

                           Endless . . .

From the Sacred ground
blossoms all Life,
endless in its Beauty,
now
and to be.

In Nature,
the end
is the beginning.
And so it is
with us.
With our Mother
Earth,
and God as our
Father,
in mind and in memory,
and in all things that matter,
every moment is
resurrected,
and Life and Love
go on.

In God’s Love
there is no
loss,
only what is
found.

And,
there is rest
for the weary
Soul.

Cecelia Weir

“There is Rest For The Weary,
True rest for the Soul.
Troubles, trials and tribulations.
Yes, the agony of time
As Eternity rolls.

Faith is the key.
Prayer is the answer.
And God got it all in control.
If you’ll just go to Him,
And talk as you stroll along,
The relief will begin to surface
And you Heart will be made strong.

Be encouraged in this Life
For there can be Happiness
Right here on Earth.
Despite its pain,
Its misery and its strife.
The good Lord loves you
He sees, He knows, and He cares.
If we but only trust Him

For He is Love..
And He is Light….
He’ll be your Light.
He’ll be your Guide.
For He’s always there
Right by your side.
Live in your Soulful rest.
That the Heartfelt ease
Will give you Life at its best.
Rest, rest, in the Lord.
For He is..
Rest
For The Weary.”
– Cecelia Weir

                     The Sun restores Life.

As our Lives
return a borrowed day,
let us Pray.
The Sun restores Life
in its ray,
and keeps God’s promise
of another new day.

“There is an ecstasy
that marks the summit of life,
and beyond which Life cannot rise.
And such is the paradox of living,
this ecstasy comes when one is most alive,
and it comes as a complete forgetfulness
that one is alive.
This out of all will remain.

They have lived and have tossed:
So much of the game will be gain,
Though the gold of the dice
has been lost.”
– Jack London (Love of Life)
.
The crystal mirror
of our memory,
sometimes with painful longing,
sometimes with delight,
invites us to return,
to never leave again
the Beauty of Love
lost along the way,
never fully knowing
that this moment,
and the last,
are one.

Goodnight.

Laughter Therapy
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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
– E. E. Cummings

What is laughter therapy?

We were born with the gift of laughter. Laughter is a natural medicine. It lifts our spirits and makes us feel happy. Laughter is a contagious emotion. It can bring people together. It can help us feel more alive and empowered.

Laughter therapy, also called humor therapy, is the use of humor to promote overall health and wellness. It aims to use the natural physiological process of laughter to help relieve physical or emotional stresses or discomfort.

Research supporting laughter therapy

A growing body of research supports the theory that laughter may have therapeutic value.

For years, the use of humor has been used in medicine. Surgeons used humor to distract patients from pain as early as the 13th century. Later, in the 20th century, came the scientific study of the effect of humor on physical wellness. Many credit this to Norman Cousins. After years of prolonged pain from a serious illness, Cousins claims to have cured himself with a self-invented regimen of laughter and vitamins. In his 1979 book Anatomy of an Illness, Cousins describes how watching comedic movies helped him recover.

Over the years, researchers have conducted studies to explore the impact of laughter on health. After evaluating participants before and after a humorous event (i.e., a comedy video), studies have revealed that episodes of laughter helped to reduce pain, decrease stress-related hormones and boost the immune system in participants.

Today more than ever before, people are turning to humor for therapy and healing. Medical journals have acknowledged that laughter therapy can help improve quality of life for patients with chronic illnesses. Many hospitals now offer laughter therapy programs as a complementary treatment to illness.

The Healing Power of Laughter

For people living with cancer, it may seem strange to find humor when facing such serious issues. Yet, laughter may be helpful in ways you may not have realized or imagined.

Laughter may help you feel better about yourself and the world around you. Laughter may be a natural diversion. When you laugh, no other thought comes to mind. Laughing may also induce physical changes in the body. After laughing for only a few minutes, you may feel better for hours.

When used in addition to conventional cancer treatments, laughter therapy may help in the overall healing process.

According to some studies, laughter therapy may provide physical benefits, such as helping to:

• Enhance oxygen intake
• Stimulate the heart and lungs
• Relax muscles throughout the body
• Trigger the release of endorphins (the body’s natural painkillers)
• Ease digestion/soothe stomach aches
• Relieve pain
• Balance blood pressure
• Improve mental functions (i.e., alertness, memory, creativity)

Laughter therapy may also help to:

• Improve overall attitude
• Reduce stress/tension
• Promote relaxation
• Improve sleep
• Enhance quality of life
• Strengthen social bonds and relationships
• Produce a general sense of well-being

Laughter therapy at CTCA

At Cancer Treatment Centers of America^® (CTCA), we fight cancer using an integrative approach. Our Mind-Body Medicine Department offers supportive options, including laughter therapy, to help you cope as you receive conventional cancer treatments.

Laughter therapy strives to help you use and enjoy laughter as a tool for healing. Dr. Katherine Puckett, Chief of the Division of Mind-Body Medicine at CTCA^®, first introduced laughter therapy at our Illinois hospital upon a patient’s request.

CTCA offers humor therapy sessions, also known as Laughter Clubs or humor groups, to help cancer patients and their families use and enjoy laughter as a tool for healing. These leader-led groups take patients through a number of laugh-related exercises, including fake laughter and laughter greetings.

Laughter Club is based not on humor or jokes, but rather on laughter as a physical exercise. One group laughter exercise involves patients standing in a circle, with the leader in the middle. Patients put their fingertips on their cheekbones, chest or lower abdomen and make “ha ha” or “hee hee” sounds until they feel vibrations through their bodies. Dr. Puckett says that, during these exercises, it is hard for people not to join in because laughter is so contagious.

According to Dr. Puckett, at the end of a laughter therapy session, patients have said things like “I didn’t even think about cancer during Laughter Club” and “That felt great! Things have been so hard that we hadn’t laughed in months.” Dr. Puckett adds that the 8-year-old daughter of a CTCA patient who attended Laughter Club said afterwards: “I never thought about laughing every day, but now I realize I can. Like even when I don’t feel happy, I can still laugh and feel better.”

“To enable someone to laugh
is much like
giving them
a bouquet of beautiful
Flowers.”
–  Wm. C. Anderson

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Our Story of No Greater Gift / Be a Honey and Save the Honey Bees / Monday and Tuesday: Julius Caesar Production at School

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky.
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.”
– John McCrae May 1915

The Story of Mankind,
OUR story,
may end
unlike it began.

  “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
– T. S. Eliot
The Hollow Men

My Dear Friends,
the precious Gift
of Freedom,
is given to us,
each and every one,
by those who sacrificed
everything:
their Freedom,
their deep longing to Live,
all the Love that Life
could bring,
the Beauty
of every Spring,
yes,
everything.

And now,
thanks to them,
this day begins
everything.

The pathway forward.

The past
permeates through
YOU
and me,
as we cruise
into this Life
with many Sails
unfurled.

The Brave
do not lie quietly
in their Sacred Graves.
They are
alive
in YOU.
With every shout
of Joy,
with every Blessed moment
to remember,
they quietly celebrate
the Life
you live,
that they give
to you.

        Time is not a natural feature of our Universe.

So breathe deeply
and say a quiet
Prayer,
a Prayer of Thanksgiving,
for the most precious Gift
you will ever receive,
the Gift of Freedom
and Life.

“Greater Love
hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life
for his friends.”
– John 15:13

The Oceans
of their deep and abiding
Love
break upon every
shore.

Deep
in the Forest
of our ideals and ideas,
where our Heart glows,
we live
in this day
and in yesterday.

Their Sacred Sacrifice,
a still Living, breathing thing,
is the Freedom
that can be found,
to be more profound,
than any other
thing on Earth

And now,
let us take time
for reflection.

If
in this day
all is ending,
without Tomorrow,
the past never happened.
The sacrifices
never made.
Without Tomorrow,
there is no Today.
And without this day,
Tomorrow shall never
be.

We are
that we are,
and what will be,
or never be.

The Love of your Child is the way.

Our precious children
are the Seeds that spring to Life
in the Sacred soil
of Freedom,
purchased at the price
of so much sorrow,
suffering and death.

The Love
of your Child
is the way
to remember and Honor
all those who suffered and died
in war.

Let us Honor
their sacrifice
and make the darkness bright.
Let us bear the Truth
and the Light.
They are calling
in the night,
like a Candle very bright,
to give our Children
Hearts
for Love
alone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If existence
precedes essence,
then our essence
precedes
our further existence.
  But the essence of a thing
is far more fundamental,
more immutable than its
existence.
.

The pathway forward
is beneath
our feet.
Let us
search for it
with our minds,
and follow it
with our Hearts.

What leads us
to Tomorrow
is the Light
of Today.
And that Light,
the Light of Love,
must be seen
by everyone.

As we
open our eyes
and peer into
the Hearts of others,
we see
more clearly.

                         There must be no more War.

The specter of
Hope
resonates throughout
History.
But the History
of all Mankind
is one tragedy
followed
by another.
The chapters
are marked
by
war after war.

But Today,
there must be
no more,
no more
War.

Down the mountain side
we will fall,
into a valley hushed
and white with snow.
No one will be here,
in the bright Light
of the Sun to tell
of our journey upward,
with sweeter songs
that accompanied us.
For what was unknown
became real,
and what then was real
became, with us,
unknown:
a potential existence
that stilled every voice
that sang every song.

“But of the tree of the
knowledge
of good and EVIL,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof,
thou shalt surely
die.”
– Genesis 2:17

Life
without the deep and abiding
reflection of Love,
simply
cannot exist,
cannot prevail.

The deep and abiding reflection of Love.

Unknowing
becomes known
because you exist.
But you are here
because of the
Love
that also existed.

Time is not
a natural feature
of our Universe.
It is a concept
invented by us,
we, so Human in being.
There may be no past behind us,
or physical future waiting
in the wings.

Nature
does not defend
the right to cry.
But cry we will
late into our night.
For the reality
of Being
resides within each
Heart.
And so it was,
and always has
been.

Cherish the mind
that has a
Heart.

Goodnight.

                   YOU may not give a Hoot. But I do!

“Little Fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am I not like thee?
Or art not thou A man like Me?
For I dance and drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.”
– William Blake

How mowing your lawn less
could help save the Bees
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By Chaffin Mitchell, AccuWeather staff writer

If you forget to mow your grass for a couple of weeks, it turns out you might be doing a favor for the environment.

New research by the USDA Forest Service and partners funded by the National Science Foundation found that mowing the lawn less frequently can significantly improve pollinator habitat.

Susannah Lerman, a research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service’s Northern Research Station, and her collaborators studied whether different lawn mowing frequencies (one, two or three weeks) influenced bee abundance and diversity in herbicide-free suburban yards in Springfield, Massachusetts.

“Mowing lawns less frequently provides an additional opportunity for householders to support bee conservation,” Lerman said.

Green spaces in urban residential yards could provide suitable habitats for pollinators.

“Mowing less frequently is practical, economical and a time-saving alternative to lawn replacement or even planting pollinator gardens,” Lerman said.

Frequent mowing inhibits the growth of “weedy” species which include dandelions and clover.

Since widespread population declines of bees and other pollinators from habitat loss are a growing concern, spontaneous flowers such as dandelions and clover could provide pollen and nectar sources throughout the growing season.

The team experimentally tested whether different lawn mowing frequencies of one, two or three weeks influenced bee abundance and diversity in 16 suburban western Massachusetts yards by increasing lawn floral resources.

“Lawn-dominated yards, when mowed less frequently and not treated with chemicals, can support surprisingly high numbers of bees and species diversity,” Lerman said.

At the Anderson School, we allow the front 2 acres of our property to blossom into beautiful Wild Flowers each Spring and Summer. This is to assist our resident Honey Bees to survive and thrive. We keep a hive for them at the back of the property – and Thank You Carter and Dad, Travis, for the new Honey Bee Hive! It is beautiful. The word buzzing around is: They Love It!!  Our Honey Bees always Beehave and truly Beelong. We Love them very much and cherish what they do for us.

My Dear Friends, please reserve some space at your home for these very precious Gifts from God. Be a Honey and help a Honey Bee.

IMPORTANT DATES
May 14 & 15                      Shakespeare Theatrical Production at School
May 22- 25                        Adventure Trip
May 25                              Last Day of Semester

Important dates are posted each Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.:
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              Habitats for pollinators.

The Silence Between Our Thoughts / Best Supplements to Fight Cancer / Atex Trash Service / Friday: Civil War Museum / Important Dates

In the silence
between our thoughts,
we share
the Unity of Life.

And in the Union
of our Spirits,
the place where we
arrive,
is where we
start.

“We shall not
cease from exploration.
And the end of all
our exploring
will be to
arrive where we started
and know the place
for the first time.”
– T. S. Eliot

The Voice
of the Hidden
is like
the crest of a Wave
before it crashes
upon the shores
of our awareness.

Not known,
it was never looked for,
not heard
in the silence
between two halves
of the whole.

                  The silence between our thoughts.

“It is in
the Silence between our thoughts
that we access our highest creativity,
our deepest intuitions
and our most profound
Joys.”
– Mark Bunn

Within ourselves
we carry the Essence
of all
that has been,
all that exists,
all that is
Humanity’s Birthright,
and ALL the Hope
that persists.

We share
ONE Life,
one Cosmic Intelligence,
one first breath,
and
one dying wish –
that we truly
Lived,
that we exhausted
our very brief Existence.

“Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw
all the paint on it you can.“
– Danny Kaye

                Everything in Nature.

 We
may be unwilling,
or unable,
to envision the Unity
of Life.
But we truly are ONE
with every Human Being,
every Creature that crawls
upon the Sacred Earth,
everything in Nature,
every day,
in many, many
ways.

The atoms
which compose our Being
are interchanging
with every other
Living Thing.

“Your physical body
walks in the World of Matter,
but a subtler aspect of you,
woven within and throughout
your physical body,
moves and interacts on a level
of pure energy.”
– one-mind-one-energy.com

            We share.

We share the
Light of Life
transformed of the
Sun.
We share the Hopes
and Dreams
of everyone.

“Science shows us
that everything is made up of energy.
It´s the building block of all matter.
The same energy that composes your body
is the same one that composes
the bricks of the house you live in, your car, your phone,
animals, trees and so forth.
It´s all the same.
It´s constantly “flowing”
and changing FORM
all the time.
This is the
Universal Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy.”

We share
the spoils of Peace,
violently torn from wars
seemingly never done,
and share the Music of Life
from songs
never sung.

“Science cannot
solve the Ultimate Mystery of Nature.
And that is because,
in the last analysis, we ourselves are…
part of the mystery
that we are trying to solve”.
– Max Planck

But,
from the chaos
inextricably woven into
the Fabric
of what seems to be,
or may not be,
we are truly
ONE.

        The Fabric of what seems to be.

Long lost,
we have found
all Truths
have a Time and Place,
all Prayers
come into
God’s Grace.

“We may not
impossibly be
ONE mask of many
worn by the
Great Face behind.”
– Thomas Hardy 

Perhaps,
the purpose of our Life,
of all Life,
is to make
the unconscious,
conscious.
And if these are
one and the same,
one may seem to lead to
the other
and back again,
arrive
where it started,
or in another dimension,
be its Brother.

In our Communion
with God,
we may discover
our immersion in the
Universal Love
of ALL.

My Dear Friends,
God is Love.
And His Love
resides
in you.

In the end,
we may arrive
where we started,
as God’s Eternal Love
crashes upon the shores
of OUR awareness,
and we come know our place
in His Heart,
for the first
Time.

Goodnight.

“Everything
in the unconscious
seeks outward manifestation,
and the personality too
desires to evolve out
of its unconscious conditions
and to experience itself
as a Whole.”
– C. G. Jung

12 of the best supplements
to fight cancer

Certain bioactive compounds, found in foods, are known to have strong epigenetic (cancer correcting) benefits. Supplements concentrate those benefits.

Dr. Young S. Kim of the National Cancer Institute studied Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) which lie at the heart of cancers. She showed in her 2012 research that a poor diet could help CSCs re-grow into a full tumor again after chemotherapy had reduced it by even 70 per cent.

However, she also showed that certain bio-active compounds could prevent this re-growth. She talked of suforaphanes, curcumin, pipeline, vitamins A and E, genistein, theanine, choline, EGCG from green tea and others and she went on to add that you could obtain from quality supplements. Who are we to argue?

Although European and American research has shown a ´small but significant´ prevention factor (of about 7 per cent), we are not going to recommend you take a multivitamin and mineral if you already have the disease. Why? because the vitamins are usually synthetic and deficient, and the minerals include iron, which is known to HELP cancer cells thrive.

We think there are much stronger compounds to take:

1: FISH OILS
The number 1 supplement. Long chain omega 3 is essential for cellular health, control of local inflammation, longevity and much, much more. Research shows supplementation, because it is daily and dose-controlled, actually provides more benefit than eating oily fish. Fish oils reduce the risk of cachexia, and can reduce polyps, the precursors to colorectal cancer.

2: SELENIUM
Helps displace heavy metals from the body. Anti-oxidant mineral recognized more and more as essential in the fight against cancer; for example, German research shows it lowers prostate cancer risk.

3: VITAMIN E
Powerful immune system booster. But take a natural form that ideally combines all 4 tocopherols and all 4 tocotrienols. You simply cannot eat the daily quantities shown to be effective in scientific studies.

4: CHLORELLA
Rather than take vitamin A, go for superfood chlorella. People simply do not eat enough ´greens´, and chlorella is a ´super-green´. Wonderful source of both natural cis- and trans-beta-carotene, minerals and vitamin B-12, especially important if you employ a meat-free diet. This is how to get your vitamin A; your body will make what it wants from beta-carotene.

5: VITAMIN D
If you cannot get a couple of hours in the sunshine every day, you should consider supplementation of 5000IUs, as recommended by Harvard medical School. This vitamin is actually a hormone and has been shown to activate the immune system, reduce the risk of cancer and even correct cancer cells in research studies.

6: COENZYME Q10
Research shows antioxidant, anti-ageing, anti-cancer benefits levels in tissues decline as you age. Essential to your mitochondria, U.S. research clearly shows you can recapture the levels of your youth by supplementation. Max 50 mgs a day. Above is wasted.

7: GRAPE SEED EXTRACT
Shown in the American VITAL study to be the top anti-oxidant commonly available. It is an OPC, and Pine Bark Extract (another OPC but not in the research study) may be even better.

8: CURCUMIN
Equal with vitamin D and fish oils. Research shows a variety of health benefits; an anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory, this spice (Turmeric) seems to play a strong role in a number of anti-cancer pathways, and in other illnesses too. Prof. Aggarwal of MD Anderson claims he does not know a cancer it does not have a positive effect against. Take with olive oil and black pepper (pipeline) for maximum absorption.

9: B COMPLEX
B Vitamins are essential for correct cellular division and replication apart from playing a role in the nervous system and many of the senses. A  pre-cursor to diseases like Alzheimer´s and cancer has been shown to be the build up of Homocystein levels in the body. B Vitamins can keep this under control. Normally your gut bacteria MAKE your B vitamins (if you feed them fibrous foods). But after antibiotics and chemo, your gut bacteria will not be functioning properly.

10: RESVERATROL
Seems to play a prevention role in everything from dementia to strokes to cancer. It is now known to act as a pro drug with the CYP1B1 gene in cancer cells. The gene turns it in to picetannol which kills the cancer cell. Research is coming thick and fast on this natural compound found in organic red grape skins.

11. MODIFIED CITRUS PECTIN
Again, new research abounds on the abilities of this compound to block the ´velcro patches´ on the outside of cancer cells, reducing their abilities to stick to each other and to new tissues. This reduces metastases.

12. INDOLE 3 CARBINOL
I3C can convert aggressive oestradiol into a safer sister, and even modify oestrogen receptor sites on cells (much like Tamoxifen) and prevent dangerous oestrogens binding there. But it also works against non-oestrogenic cancers via the pathway. Research shows clear benefits in Triple Negative Breast Cancer.

It is important that you look for a source of naturally-sourced supplements. Many cheaper products are synthetic and limited in their content. Some research studies have indicated such synthetic products have dubious abilities. If you have already decided to supplement, you may want to see what supplements are available on www.ournaturalselection.com (in the UK) who supply all natural products.

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IMPORTANT DATES
Feb. 1                                    Tuition Deposits Due  for 2018-19
Feb. 2 (Friday)                      Trip T. B. A.
Feb. 19 (Monday)                 President’s Day Holiday
March 9                                 Butterflies in the Garden Exhibit
March 12 – 19                       Spring Break Holiday
April 13 & 16 (Fri. & Mon.)  Good Friday and Easter Holidays
May 1                                    Tuition Balance Due for 2018-19   
May 22- 25                            Adventure Trip
May 25                                  Last Day of Semester

Important dates are posted each Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.: William’s Weblog at andersonschool.net

On Friday we will meet at the Texas Civil War Museum at 10:00 a.m. Pick up will be at the Anderson School at 3:15 p.m.

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When Forever is Too Long / Friday Trip: Flight Deck

“It is here we must begin to seek
the wisdom of the Children
and the graceful way of Flowers
in the Wind.”
– John Denver

Whatever is truly Real is projected.

The Story of Life
may be happy or sad,
one of being lonely
or with another you truly Love.
It may be truth
or become fiction,
real
or unreal.

But the stories
of our Lives
have something in common:
the journey
has nothing to do
with you,
and everything to do
with your Heart.

“You will know the Truth,
and the Truth will
set you free.”
– John 8:32

Feeling alone,
being the only one
who knows your vision
of Truth,
of Beauty,
of the Reality of your precious existence,
makes the world around you
appear
very, very small.

Your Sacred World
can appear so small
that it,
and you,
disappear.

Yes,
the solitary Heart
can be imprisoned
is very small room
indeed.

And the sadness
you may feel,
is your Heart
asking to be
reborn,
to be let free,
introduced
to the World.

“A strange passion
is moving in my head.
My Heart has become
a Bird
which searches in the Sky.
Every part of me
goes off in different directions.
Is it really so
that the one I Love
is Everywhere?”
– Rumi

Your Life
is a much larger picture
than you can ever imagine.

You
are not just someone small
that fits into a bigger picture,
a three dimensional
biological design
intended to look like a
person.

Do not wait forever for the Love Bird’s song.

My Dear Friend,
YOU
are the picture.

“A taste of love
will linger after
I know the meaning
of all that I see.”
– John Barry

How unbelievable it is
that the one You Love
is Everyone,
and You
are everywhere.

 “Wisdom
will enter your heart,
and Knowledge
will fill you with
Joy.”
– Proverbs 2:10

Reality
is centered
in
the Human Heart
that beats within.

           YOU are the picture.

The preponderance of Biblical passages,
speak of the ‘Heart’ as the
central,
defining

element of the Human person.

Whatever is truly Real
is projected
from
your Heart and Mind
and out into the vast Universe
of experience.

“Watch over your heart
with all diligence,
for from it flow
the Springs of Life.”
– Proverbs 4: 23
.
You do not absorb
what is Real.
You are
what is Real.

What you feel
coming toward you,
is really what resides
deep within you.

Do not wait forever
for the Love Bird’s song.
Forever
is too long.
Listen carefully,
and you will hear,
music is in this moment
it is here
and it is there,
near
and far,
it is everywhere.

    You are the wind and the rain.

The Beauty
of the moment
is what we are.

“Each moment
contains a hundred messages
from God.”
– Rumi

You are
the wind and the rain,
the soil and the sky.
Yesterday,
tear drops
in your eyes
fell from on high,
to nourish the Flowers
you hold
in your hand
today.

Eternal Waters
flow from streams
to a mighty sea,
and they flow
through you
and me.

Eternal Waters flow.

Life
that is held so dear,
did appear
in days of yesteryear,
to be something else
of Beauty today.
And tomorrow
is another day
to Cherish Life
Eternally.

“Just as the water in a wave
is not itself changed
by the wave’s motion.
Unchanging,
the Self is the silent knower
of all that appears in our experience.”
– Peter Russell
(read more)

Though every thread
in the Fabric of Life
may be torn,
it may be
mended,
it may again be
worn.

Your Heart is asking to be introduced to the World.

 Forgiveness,
and the gentle
ways of Love,
are the messages
from within,
from Above,
from One
who Truly Loves you,
the Father
of us all.

The Wisdom
of Human eloquence
emanates from
the Holy Word
of God.

To Love this World
and everything in it,
is to fill the Universe
with the Essence
of your Being.

 The Beauty of the moment is what we are.

Love
enables you
to know
just how vast,
how unimaginably large
the Universe of our
awareness
can be.

Beheld
in the eyes of another,
your World
of Love
and deep compassion,
becomes a Universe,
unfathomable to behold,
Beautiful beyond belief,
numberless in victory
without knowing defeat,
and all the while your Heart races
so fast,
it skips a beat.

There are those
in this World
that would have you believe
all free will is but an illusion.
But you are free
to open up
your mind,
by simply opening up
your Heart.

My Dear Friends,
we are so much more
than the physical,
because the physical
is the last aspect
of the process
of the Creation
of who we are.

“If seeds in the black earth
can turn into such Beautiful roses,
what might not the Heart of man become
in its long journey
toward the stars?” 
–  G.K. Chesterton 

Believe
in yourself.
Believe
in each other.
Believe
and Trust
in the Word of God.

You are
a deeply Loved Child
of God.

My Friend,
God is Love.
And so are
You.

Goodnight.

For Friday Oct. 14, 2016

By Popular DEMAND
and a few mild threats!

We will meet at 8:30 a.m. at The Anderson School

At approximately 11:00 a.m. we will travel to La Madeleine Country French Café to enjoy lunch.

Following lunch, we will caravan to Flight Deck (817) 246-2710 (info@fdtp.com) located a half mile west of Ridgmar Mall, at the Cherry Lane exit off I-30, at 7751 Scott St. in Fort Worth, to enjoy jumping and acting, otherwise, a little abnormal.

                  PICK UP will be at  FLIGHT DECK  at 3:00 p.m.
.

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born
and the day you find out why.”
 – Mark Twain
.

DESTINATIONS:  FLIGHT DECK is where FUN and fitness take flight! It integrates rebounding (trampoline jumping) along with strength and flexibility training. Reconnect with your inner child. Flight Deck features a mix of aerobics, core strengthening, coordination & flexibility exercises.

* YOU WILL NEED WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM YOUR PARENTS (contact Flight Deck  (817) 246-2710 / or go ONLINE: fdtp.com for instructions.

If you arrive late, we shall have departed with your child(ren) and will return to school.  Please call if you will be late.

Students are NOT to leave the restaurant or take flight from flight deck without the approval of Dr. A. He is well known for melodramatic swoons and fainting spells if you are missing and it is a bit much for Mrs. A.      

FINANCIAL: The cost for Flight Deck is $10.00 for our two hours – please pay at the Flight Deck. And please provide funds for lunch. Refreshments: Yes!

Uniform pants with a belt & red monogrammed school shirts are required.

PARENTS / FRIENDS / NEIGHBORS, are always invited to participate on our trips.

                    IMPORTANT DATES:

Oct 28                                                 Fossilmania (Glenrose)
Nov. 4                                                 Modern Art Museum
Nov. 21-25  (Monday-Friday)            Thanksgiving / Fall Break
Dec. 1-2                                              Texas A.G.T. Conference (no school)
Dec. 22 (Thursday – changed from Dec. 20)   Last Day of Fall Semester
Dec. 21 – Jan. 4                                  Winter Break Holiday
Jan. 20                                                 Fort Worth Stock Show
(See William’s Weblog at andersonschool.net for trip details (posted each Wed. at 6:00 p.m.)

   A. n . d . e . r . s . o . n

“Happiness is someone to love,
something to do
and something to hope for.”
                                                                     – Chinese proverb

The Fingerprints of God / Food Sources of Insanity / Friday: Museum of the Americas

Dedicated with my Love, tears and Prayers
to the treasured memory of Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Gaul
December 13, 1926 – January 28, 2016,
pictured below with her precious daughter
Judy Weis.

My Love for you is Eternal,
My tears ever flowing,
And my Prayers are of
Thanksgiving.

Thank you Lord,
for such a beautiful
and Loving
Friend.
She has been a treasured Blessing
in my Life
and so very many others.

Betty became a Light in the Heart of everyone, a beautiful Flower in the Garden of God’s Grace.

“We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place
for the first time.”
– T.S. Eliot

   You are given beautiful gifts from God.

We think
We pick Flowers,
The Flowers we gather
For someone we Love.

But no.
As real as our strange world
May appear to be,
We model the world we experience
In our mind.
Which has led some to think
That existence, as we know it,
May be an illusion,
And our reality
Isn’t really real.

This results from scientific investigations
Telling us
That everything we know
Is merely a construction
In our minds,
What we humans perceive
As reality in the world
Around us,
May be no more than
An illusion of thought.

It has far reaching
Implications.

But these implications
Are far more reaching
Than we are capable
Of ever understanding.

Ontology is the philosophical study
Of the nature of being,
Becoming, existence, or reality.
It was called “first philosophy” by Aristotle
in Book IV of his Metaphysics.

My Precious Friends,
As we explore
The nature of being,
Let us choose JOY today,
By not leaning only upon
Our own understanding,
But by having childlike trust
In our Loving Creator’s omniscience.

Allow Him to direct your path,
Which will lead to ultimate joy,
And make your journey,
Even when laden with sorrow,
Joyful.

“As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
as poor, yet making many rich;
as having nothing,
and yet possessing all things.”
(2 Corinthians 6:10).

We are, after all,
Children
Of God.

Existence, as we know it, may be an illusion.

“One could sum up mind
as a universal aspect of Life and energy,
an aspect with a relationship to the body
mystically similar to the wave’s
relationship to the particle.
And according to modern religious sources,
mind also has a resonance relation
to brain cells,
which vibrate in response to
Spiritual Energy
under laws far beyond
the scope of science.”
– Guy Murchie

Let us explore,
In a philosophical perspective,
One very beautiful aspect
Of our Life.

My Friends,
The Flowers of the field
Pick us,
As surely
As someone,
Yet unknown,
Will choose you
To Love.

         Such sweet awareness.

“I am not my memories.
I am my dreams.”
– Terry Hostetler

Just as we take meaning
To
The symbols of communication,
And not from them,
We impose our reality
Upon what we think
Is in the world around us.

Everything we know, imagine,
Perceive as color, sensation, sound,
Our very thoughts and feelings,
Make a first appearance
In our mind.

The Flowers of the field pick us.

And the Flowers
Residing in the fertile
Soil of a lonely
Mind,
A longing Heart,
Select one of us,
Who falls in Love
With their beauty,
Delights in their delicate aroma,
Absorbs all the colors
That take your breath
Away.

We look far beyond the beauty.

Yes,
Flowers seemingly move
From a place on
This Earth.

And with your outstretched arms
And Lovingly Guided Hands,
They follow the pathway
Back,
Back to the Love
That breathed Life
Into their fragile being,
To the home
That first was their own,
To a place
In your mind,
To the Heart of their Creator,
The Heart of God,
Who resides within
You.

“The most potent form of energy
is thought.
Thought-waves are cosmic waves
that penetrate all time and space.”
– Camillo Loken

Love breathed Life into their fragile being.

And we gaze
Far beyond their beauty,
Through the Flowers
Of our brief moment in time,
And back again.

Then
We give them to someone,
Who also abides in our Heart.

Yes,
The Flowers of our field
Also
Pick the one
We come to
Love.

For they are planted
In the fertile soil
That is the mind
Of a hungry Soul,
By the Loving Hand
Of God.
And as we
Give away
A beautiful bouquet
Of such sweet awareness,
We are unaware
That Flowers
Growing in another person’s dream,
By the Grace of God,
Become real.

     Flowers seemingly move.

They are,
My Friends,
Always there,
Waiting,
Quietly
Blowing in the wind
Of a longing
And lonely mind.

For we are searching,
Ever searching,
To find the courage
To move them
From the field
Of possibilities,
From never,
To Love
Forever.

“Matter
becomes a “wave” of potentials,
expressing itself in the form
of multiple possibilities”
– CSglobe

Flowers by the Grace of God, become real.

Flowers
Planted in the fertile fields
Of our longing to be,
With so much Beauty,
That was
From our awareness
Concealed,
Are like
God’s Divine Plan
Waiting in your Heart and mind
To be revealed.

“We do not see things
as they are.
We see them
as we are.”
– The Talmud

Move them from the field of possibilities, from never, to Love Forever.

The Majesty
Of God’s Love
Conveyed
Throughout His Universe,
Is beautifully displayed.

His Fingerprints
Are on every petal
Of every Flower,
In every field
Of every dream.

And my Soul sings
To think
They were planted
Just for you,
And me.

“There the flowers will be blooming
And the grass will be green
And the skies will be clear and serene,
Where the sun ever beams
In this valley of dreams
And no cloud will be seen.
There will be peace
in the valley
For me some day.”
– Thomas A. Dorsey

My Dear Friends,
If what is real
Is within,
And we now know
That to be,
Then our mind and our Heart
Are the only domains,
And nothing,
No, nothing else
matters,
As you will come
To see.

His Fingerprints are on every petal.

“There are no gloomy skies
When seen through the eyes
Of those who are blessed with love.”
– Mack Discant

What we receive
Is what we bring,
And in every moment
Of Prayerful quiet,
God is listening.

“Once I have known
the mind of God,
the rest are all
details”.
– Albert Einstein

The time will come
When what we know
Is what we
Have always known:
A clear, clarion call
To see the past,
Through our forgiveness,
Never existed
At all.

Yesterday
Is no pathway
To transcend
Sorrow.
Only today
Births tomorrow.

What is past
Is not the road
Down which we travel
To a summer place,
Where people share
Hopes and dreams,
Where Love births
The courage
To care
For the morrow.

“Come, Lord, and tarry not;
Bring the long looked for day;
O why these years of waiting here,
These ages of decay?”
– Horatius Bonar
Hymns of Faith and Hope

The palette of our Resplendent Spirit,
Through fervent Prayer,
Will beautifully blossom
Transcendent colors aware,
As heights we ascend,
And return our fragile being
To the soaring breadth
And sumptuous depths
Of such Splendor
As has no beginning,
And no end.

They were planted just for you and me.

“As the sun,
ere he has risen,
sometimes paints his image
in the firmament,
e’en so the shadows
of events
precede the events,
and in today
already walks tomorrow.”
– William Shakespeare

God
Always resides
In your precious Heart,
In your Life
And in the fertile fields
Of the beautiful flowers
Found in your Dreams.

May God Bless you
And keep you
In His Dreams.

Goodnight.

Bella at the Spa. Yes, Mia’s truly American dog!

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Americans are eating themselves INSANE.
Causes of mental insanity identified in factory foods
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
A leading consumer health advocate and health freedom activist.

Sources of mental insanity are now identified in factory foods. Mankind is concentrating brain-damaging heavy metals through foods, soils, contaminated water supplies and industrial pollution. People who are buying and consuming factory processed foods are eating themselves into insanity.

The real reason society is so incredibly insane at every level is rooted in the consumption of toxic heavy metals through food, water and other environmental sources. It’s exacerbated by the poisonous heavy metals being fed to factory farmed chickens (and other animals) whose poop is harvested and spread on soils that are used to grow foods for humans.

My Dear Friends, please select ORGANIC foods. Our food chain is now polluted. Yes, you are crazy to buy anything else. Or you may become so.

                                                    read more here

On Friday, February 5, 2016 our destination is: The Museum of the Americas, 216 Fort Worth Highway, Weatherford, (Telephone: 817-341-8668/817-599-0490) and the fabulous Whistle Hill Restaurant (next door). We will depart from the school at approximately 9:00 a.m. to arrive & begin our visit at 10:00 a.m.

Dr. A in an earlier life. Note the familiar gaze ever searching for any sign of misbehavior!

Our dear friend and Museum Director, Dr. Harold Lawrence, will provide a docent guided tour. Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence have just returned from spending three weeks in Peru.

Following a morning of great stories, questions and answers, and Dr. Harold Lawrence’s cultural and philosophical perspectives, we will have time for a self-guided tour and shopping at the museum store and then enjoy lunch at the Whistle Hill Café (next door). Then we will return to school to work on our Shakespeare production, Hamlet, with Director George X Rodriguez while Dr. A works on a Ham Omelet. They are both dramatic events. Now pass the Ketchup so Dr. A can catch up.

The Museum of the Americas is a jewel of Weatherford, where we can find the colorful and diverse heritage of native peoples of the Americas through a fabulous collection of 19th & 20th century artifacts, crafts and folk art. The rich cultural traditions of the people and tribes of north, central and South America are reflected in the intricate and distinctive designs of the objects they make for daily use for religious ceremonies and for trade.

FINANCIAL: Museum/Speaker Fee (Donation to the Museum) $5.00 Please pay Dr. A.
Lunch: Please provide funds for lunch today.
Gift Shop: Yes! There have wonderful gifts.

Note: Uniform pants, a belt & red monogrammed school shirt are required. PARENTS/GUARDIANS/FRIENDS are always invited to participate on our study/fun/adventure trips.

Students are NOT to leave the Museum or the Restaurant at any time or for any reason, without the knowledge and approval of Dr. or Mrs. Anderson.

This is Brix, Mia’s other child dog. He will keep an eye on you. Just pick a color!

Drop-off will be at The Anderson School at 8:30 a.m. OR  you may meet us at the Museum at 10:00 a.m. Pick-up will be at the Anderson School at 3:15 p.m. Please let me know if you are meeting us at the Museum.

IMPORTANT DATES
Feb. 1 Deposits Due for 2016-2017 school year
Feb. 15 (MONDAY) President’s Day Holiday
March 4 (1:00 PM) Stolen Shakespeare Guild Monologue and Scene Competition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center (we have three young ladies competing in the finals)
March 14-18 Spring Break Holiday
March 25 & 28 (Fri. & Mon.) Easter Holiday
April 6 (Wednesday) Screening of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch at The Modern Art Museum (11:00 am)
April 29 Scarborough Renaissance Festival
May 1 Tuition Due for 2016-2017 school year
May 2 & 3 (MONDAY & TUESDAY) Annual Anderson School Shakespeare Production (Hamlet)
May 16 (MONDAY) Preparation for Adventure Trip
May 17-20 Adventure Trip
May 20 Last Day of School

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It Is Worth Remembering / Healthy Fish to Eat and Fish to Avoid / The Countdown is ON to Sept. 8

Dedicated to my wonderful friend
Rev Donald Graves
Tucson Center for Spiritual Living

Don and I grew up together
and had so very many
wonderful adventures in
Boy Scout Troop 17.

Thanks for the memories.
You are deeply admired
and loved.

“You are the Beloved.
Be sure to treat yourself that way.”
—   —   —

“To live
is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist,
that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde

How many times
Have hearts strayed
From the beautiful path
On which once
They would play?

So often we wander
Down alluring pathways of life,
Hearts and minds
Together,
Wanting to be
Forever in Love
With life,
Wanting to stay.

The crystal mirror
Of our memory,
With painful longing,
Invites us to return,
To never leave again
The beauty of Love
Lost along the way,
Never fully knowing
That this moment,
And the last,
Are one.

“Time present and time past
are both perhaps present
in time future
and time future
contained in time past.”
– T.S. Eliot

The crystal mirror of our memory invites us to return.

The Human Heart
Will never know
It is not still in Love.
It feels not
The time
Apart from the moment
It awakened
In Love with a dream.

Our heart can never forget,
Never truly rest,
Never
Not remember,
All the Love
That gave it Life,
Birth.

It is
Worth remembering,
Love is the Mother
Of all Life on Earth.

Love is a living, breathing thing.

To stay,
To be,
In Love
For all time,
Is not a dream,
My Friend.

For Love
Is a living, breathing thing.
Over and over again
It is reborn,
Brought back to Life,
In our memories,
In our thoughts,
Our fragile hearts,
And
In our very beautiful dreams.

Time stands still and forever is mine.

My Dear Friends,
There is a texture
To Life.
You can feel it
When you laugh out loud,
When you cry so hard
You taste the salt
Of which you are made
In your precious tears,
When you see your reflection
In the sparkle
Of someone’s eyes,
And come to know
You
Are truly alive.

      There is a texture to Life.

When someone,
Anyone,
Smiles
And lifts your Spirit off the ground,
And you
Are no longer you,
You belong to
A different moment,
And now belong
To someone
Who is not other,
But a Sister,
A Brother,
And you are together
On a beautiful
Pathway of Life.

You are one.

“What sunshine is to flowers,
smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure;
but scattered along life’s pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable.”
– Joseph Addison

The Love that gave you Life can give it back again.

Such is Love in life
When Spirits blend,
And you and your friend
Can longer stay,
For in this one moment
Time stands still,
And forever is mine.

Love opens this door,
Shows us this way,
Lights a Lamp,
Calls us
By name.

The glorious sun that God sets in your Heart.

Without tasting life,
One withers and dies,
Is deprived of the flavors
Upon which life dines.

Life, my friends,
When viewed
Through the Lens of Love,
Shows us
Love and Life
Are the same.
The joy of living
May be found
In the eyes of another,
In soothing a heart
Filled with pain,
In feeling the Sacred rain
Of grateful tears,
In the calming sounds
Of the night bird’s songs,
In the glorious Sun that God
Sets in your Heart,
In the healing forgiveness
That greets the dawn
Of Life born again.

The joy of living may be found in the glorious Sun that God sets in your Heart.

The Love
That gave you life
Can give it back
Again.
For life is more
Than a game.
Life and Love
Are truly the same.
Your Love
Was made to be born
In the Human Heart
Again,
And again,
And again.

“There’s a new world somewhere
they call the promised land,
And I’ll be there someday
if you will hold my hand.”
– from “I’ll never find another you”
by Tom Springfield
listen here

Seek not to find
That which is within,
For the Heart that beats
For another,
Has already found
Its way Home.

Invite it
To come in.

Healing forgiveness greets the dawn of Life born again.

The water is wide, I cannot get o’er,
Neither have I, the wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two,
And both shall row, my love and I.”
“There is a Ship”
by Yarrow, Peter / Stookey, Noel Paul /
Travers, Mary Allin / Okun, Milton T
listen here

                               Fish to Eat & Fish to Avoid

Fish can provide an excellent low-calorie protein source without the fat and cholesterol of red meats. However, some varieties such as shark and mackerel are very high in mercury. Mercury is a known carcinogen and a pollutant of the habitats for many fish, including farmed fish, according to the Washington State Department of Health. The USDA recommends eating at least eight ounces of healthy, low-mercury fish per week.

Crab

This family of fish falls into the shellfish group and includes king, blue and snow crab. Crab is an excellent source of many nutrients including protein, vitamin B12, and vitamin C, and it has only 82 calories per three-ounce serving. Crab is readily available at grocery stores and seafood marts, but avoid the canned or artificial versions. These can have excess sodium, which is hard on the kidneys and heart.

Catfish

When enjoying catfish, choose the American kind – raised, procured and sold as an American product. Imported catfish may contain high levels of cancer-causing toxins. Broiled or grilled catfish is high in omega-3 fatty acids, which are important for heart and brain health, and selenium, which is important for cell metabolism.

Scallops

Scallops are a small mussel and safe to eat two to three times weekly. Low in toxins and high in protein, these mussels are delicious alone or on a salad. Scallops come in a variety of sizes, including the large Atlantic version and tiny bay scallops.

Salmon

Salmon is a heart-healthy food that is rich in omega-3 acids. The larger and older the fish, the more mercury it might contain. Therefore, limit farm-raised or Atlantic salmon to one serving every two months, but enjoy canned Pacific salmon two times a week, according to the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals.

Trout

Perhaps a neighbor just returned from a weekend fishing trip and has some trout to spare. Freshwater trout is best and can be enjoyed biweekly, according to the Washington State Department of Health. This fish is rich in omega-3 fats, which are good for the heart.

Tuna

Canned tuna is a popular pantry staple for good reason. It is a quick, cheap source of low-fat protein and is rich in vitamins B12 and D, calcium and iron. However, albacore tuna contains almost three times as much mercury as skipjack tuna, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. Therefore, pregnant women and young children should focus on consuming primarily skipjack, or light varieties of tuna. Furthermore, canned tuna can be high in sodium, so look for low-sodium versions if you’re watching your salt intake.

Oysters

Raw or steamed, oysters are a rich source of protein and omega-3 fats. The Washington State Department of Health states that oysters are low in mercury and can be enjoyed two to three times weekly. Those with health conditions, however, such as immunodeficiency disorders like AIDS or cancer, should avoid oyster consumption due to their potential bacteria containment.

Crayfish

About 3 inches in length, crayfish are similar to tiny lobsters that turn bright red when cooked and contain juicy white meat. Sometimes referred to as crawdads, crayfish are a healthy fish to eat, but only the American kind that is farmed mostly in Louisiana and the Mississippi.

Shrimp

Rich in iodine, shrimp is a low-fat, low-calorie shellfish that can be enjoyed weekly, according to the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. Shrimp can be boiled, grilled, sauteed or added to a salad while still retaining the same delicious taste.

Sardines

The smaller the fish, the less mercury it contains. Older, larger fish eat the small fish and therefore absorb their mercury and toxins. Sardines, such as herring, are small fish that are low in mercury and high in essential omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, vitamin D and several B-vitamins. They are sometimes enjoyed plain on crackers or out of a can. Because many canned versions are high in sodium, consume them in moderation or look for low-sodium canned versions if you are controlling your sodium intake.

The FDA advises that pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children to avoid eating swordfish, shark, king mackerel, and tilefish.

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And for your information:
The causes of death
NOW
and
one hundred fifteen years ago.

My dear friends,
It is NOT normal to die from cancer, heart disease
or suffer from diabetes, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, etc.
These diseases only exist because of
they way we live our lives
and a lack of knowledge,

Cancer and Heart Disease
and Diabetes
have INCREASED due to
Corporate (profit) driven
pollution of the food chain.

My friends,
please study this chart from
the New England Journal of Medicine.
It is quite revealing.
And MOST important
share this knowledge with
you precious children.
They NEED to know.
Please discuss it with them.
This chart will make for GREAT
nightly reading.
A serious discussion
will enable them to have
many more nights
available to read.

Many.

May God always abide with you
as you cherish and protect
each precious child.

The Countdown is ON to Sept. 8
Mrs. A is jumping for JOY!
We are excited to see you again.
Please bring some new jokes.
I have shared everything I know with R.J.
And now he is looking very funny
At me.

Yes, I am worried.
He is forcing me to watch old re-runs of
Lassie and Rin Tin Tin!

Help!

Seek not to find that which is within.