When we are feeling lonely, we have lost the idea that we are all one and none of us are separate from the whole.
We all have days when we feel lonely, but the very idea of loneliness comes from the false notion that we are separate and isolated parts in a world filled with other separate, isolated parts. In truth, we can no more be separate from our world than a fish can be separate from the water in which it swims. When we really begin to look at the boundaries we see as so solid, they prove to be, in fact, quite porous. For example, it is not clear exactly where our skin ends and the air begins when we consider how our skin is affected by changes in the quality of the air. When it is dry, our skin becomes dry, and when it is humid, our skin becomes moist and supple.
By the same token, it is difficult sometimes to distinguish the boundary between one person and another, especially when our actions tie us together so inextricably. Every move we make has an effect that touches all the people around us. On an even more subtle level, when we share space with another person, we often pick up on their energy, feeling how they feel and attuning to them, whether we mean to or not. This is what we mean when we say a mood or a feeling is contagious.
If loneliness is a temporary condition based on an incomplete understanding of what we are made of, we can think of its presence as a catalyst for exploring our ideas about reality. We can respond by testing the boundaries we believe separate us from the life within and all around us. If we test them, we will discover that they are not so solid after all and that we can never really be alone.
Week at a Glance
Monday - Book Fair Starts
Staff Book Shopping - 3:30pm
Tuesday - 1st Grade Field Trip
Webb Family Book Fair - 5-7pm
Wednesday - PPCD Trip
Thursday - Winning House Trip - Horseshoe Junction
Stenseth Retirement - 3:30pm
Kinder Round Up - 4:30-6pm
Friday - Final Day to get Grades
Webb Talent Show - 8am - Gym
Bee Keeper Assembly (PreK-2) - 1:30pm - Gym
Bee Keeper Assembly (3rd-5th) - 2:15pm - Gym
Book Fair
This week is our BOGO Book Fair!! We are so excited. Please help kids shop for books. The teacher schedule will come out later this evening.
ALSO, as a special surprise, all classroom teachers will get $50 to spend for books for their classroom.
Please help us build up the Family Book Fair Night on Tuesday from 5-7pm. The first 65 families will get $40 extra to spend (yes employee families as well!).
Teachers can shop for books with their $50 on Monday at 3:30pm (not with their classes)
As with any book fair you (or your students) can bring their own money to shop with of course! But NO journals will be purchased with school funds.
House Trip
The winning house trip (Ohitika) is Thursday! Students and staff will leave at 10am and return at 2:30pm.
We will get out a coverage schedule closer to Thursday for the staff who are attending the trip.
Stenseth Retirement
Since Mrs Stenseth will be out of town the last night of work, there will be a retirement party in her honor on Thursday at 3:30pm. Hope you can attend!
Webb Talent Show
The Webb Talent Show will take place at 8am on Friday morning in the Gym! Mr H will get us details soon.
Bee Keeper
The American Honey Queen will be visiting BeeWeaver Honey Farms and will be stopping by Webb to talk bees, beekeeping, and even to let our kids try some honey! The times are above.
Birthdays
May 20 - Diddy Flores
May 23 - Gerry Williams
PLCs
There will be NO PLC this week EXCEPT for 3rd-5th but still morning duty.
Monday - 3rd on Duty
Tuesday - 1st & 5th on Duty
Wednesday - 4th on Duty
Thursday - Kinder on Duty
Friday - PreK & 2nd on Duty
Monday - 3rd on Duty
Tuesday - 1st & 5th on Duty
Wednesday - 4th on Duty
Thursday - Kinder on Duty
Friday - PreK & 2nd on Duty
Tell Your Story
Here is this week's conversation with Tal Thompson
Blogs/Articles
In Closing...
Since so many of you are dieting I thought you might like this new "Blue Apron" idea!
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