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ELEMENTARY

                                                                         

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                                            JR HIGH                                               

                               

                                                                                                                    

RECOGNIZE THESE BUILDINGS

IT ALL STARTS THIS COMING TUESDAY

AUGUST 30, 2011

someone help me center the word chapel over the picture!

Oh No!

"Oh No!  John Q average student isn't returning to OCS.  Will I be able to go on with my life?"  That's what I've been hearing lately.  "No one is coming back that I want to socialize with."  I guess that means that the rest of us aren't creating "cool" enough at OCS.  Think about it.  There are many of us remaining at OCS, but the comments make us insignificant.  I mean if I was cool enough "average student" might return and attend our school.

I wonder what it would be like if several said, "hey the right fielder isn't coming back, then I won't either!"  That would be so cool to be cool enough for someone to change schools.  How sick on the other hand can it get?  I guess the nobodies are the only ones left.  That means you and me.

What to do?  Judge not right fielder!  I have been.  I won't do that anymore in this blog.  This is what I will say:  I'm going to change lives this year.  I'm going to have a great year and enjoy all the unique people who enter my life.  To those of us who remain, remember this:  You are significant, you are important.  And it's up to you to make this an outstanding year at OCS.  And it's up to me to make this an exciting year at OCS.  I'm setting that as one of my goals, how about you?

This is America and people should get to do what they want to do.  Whatever the reasons why people aren't returning, I must see that they are good reasons and people should be respected.  I respect them.  And I'll miss them.  They've been a part of my life and they still are a part of my life.  Thank you and may you have a terrific year wherever you attend school-I know you will.
"The Lord watch between you and me while we are absent one from another." Laban to Jacob Gen. 31.49.

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I Want To Journal

I really want to Journal.  Really, I want to journal!  It's so cool.  I'll give you one reason.  Not close to being a reason enough to journal, but one worth mentioning.

Usually when you journal you date your entry.  Today, when this is posted it will give the exact time of the entry and the date.  Seeing that date is reason enough to journal.  Here is what happens when I see that date on past entries:
1) "Wow!  Was it that long ago that I wrote something in my journal?"  A simple recognition of time fleeting.
2) "What's happened in the intervening moments that I've forgotten since I last wrote?"  Introspection of events lost or forgotten.
3) "Did I write that way back then?"  Thoughtfulness concerning when a past event took place.
The Blog forces me to journal and reflect on what I once thought important enough to tell the one other reader of the blog.  The Blog reminds me of the importance of life events and how easily I forget or misplace them.

Turtle Backs

                          

One time I was riding the ferry from Orcas to Friday Harbor.  We were going the long way-Shaw, Lopez, Friday Harbor-and it seemed like we would never arrive.  Suddenly, someone sitting near us exclaimed, "look, you can see why they call it turtleback."  I looked.  Uh?  I looked again.  There it was.  From a distance it looked like the back of a turtle.  If you didn't know before this blog where the 'turtleback' thing came from-consider yourself enlightened.
Oh, I should mention that Judy and I did the entire 'turtleback hike' yesterday.  It was 4.7 miles long and we went from the south entrance to the north trailhead.  We had hiked the north side to the Waldron lookout several times, but the views from the south side of the mountain were spectacular.  It was like you were riding on the back of a turtle.  (Get It?)

trf                                                          

Challenges

It's taken me a while to adjust to the tourists.  Each summer they come, they spend, they walk in front of our cars, they stare at the sky, and they love to look in the windows of real estate offices.  They're funny.  They're interesting.  We need them.  I've grown to understand them.  My next challenge is the ferry workers.  How sad I let them irritate me.

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The Sting

Thought you should know that I was stung by some bees.  I required lots of sympathy.  All I did was
pull a branch from their nest-which I did not know was a nest.  It hurt.

bees for life