Loss of a Student

On Tuesday, December 8th, 2009, our school suffered a great loss as one of our students died in a car accident at the intersection crossing highway 12. I was there, it was not good, and I appreciate all the effort and work that went into trying to save this young man by the local fire department and law enforcement. I would also like to thank the staff at Riffe Medical Clinic for all of there support. Our community is small but we are close and I'm certain that we will carry on, become stronger and not forget our fallen student. Please pray for the families and our students here in Mossyrock. Thank you.

December is here already...

2009 has come and gone in a flash, or at least that's how it seems. Just two weeks ago we remembering how snowy and wet January was, the summer with our family reunion and then it's Thanksgiving and now Christmas is upon us. What's going on? Busy? Are we a little busy? Yes we are, with work, kids, jobs, selling a house finally and beginning to save up money to purchase a new house in the future. Renting and maintaining the current place is also fun. The boys love being near the woods, the elk, deer and bobcat make for exciting views from the deck early in the morning. Seeing Mount Rainier is also a joy and it brings me back to some great memories of growing up on a small farm, seeing the Cascade mountians and Mount Rainier from our breakfast area in the kitchen. Life may be passing quickly by - but it's all good. :-)

Why we teach...

Students are the most important people in our schools.
Students are the reason we are here. They give us the opportunity to serve them.
Students are here to develop into adults with lifelong learning skills.
We model those skills. It is our goal to serve students' needs to our mutual satisfaction.

Find My Way

Can I see you in the morning
Or should we spend the night alone
Can we take a drive along the beach
Or shall I drive you home ?

Could I hold you through the movie
And keep you close and warm,
Could I put my arm around you
So you?ll be safe ? out of the storm ?

Should I ask your father for you
Or would your mother do as well,
Should I say that I love you
Or should I just not tell ?

Would you please tell me the answers
To the questions that I say,
Would you please come and guide me
Would you help me find my way ?

Would you help me find my way -.-

JI/KWM

A Friend

So you're saying that it's over
God that's news to me,
I thought forever was a long time
I thought forever we would be,
I must have gotten my signals crossed
Somewhere along the way,
I must have gotten the message wrong
Because I thought with me you'd stay.
People have told me time and again
Better not give your heart away
It's much safer to make a friend,
Yet to me a friend I thought I had,
For with you I could share the good and the bad
But again I find my heart's a mess
I should have made a friend
I guess...

JI/KWM

Mountains On the Moon

(At play with my boys)

Why don't we play with the children
They need us more and more every day.
Why don't we give in to the child that's within.
Why take our shoes off at the door?

Why don't we fly around like airplanes
Use our thumbs and fingers as our bombs.
Why don't we lay down in the hut and move mountains.
When did my wife become the mom?

Why not be silly in the front yard
Have grass fights and I'll spray you with the hose.
God how I love getting wild with you
Man how this helps me vent my love.

Making forts on the canopy, blasting off into space,
Checking to see if we'll have food... cheese and crackers.
And then wondering what we'll have to do
In order to clear that ridge on the mountain’s of the moon.


JI/KM

A Moment of Silence

A moment of silence
To reflect on what is.
A moment of silence,
To listen.
A moment of silence,
To pray.
A moment of silence,
To mourn.
A moment of silence,
To heal.
A moment of silence,
To give thanks.
A moment of silence,
To Love.

JI

If I Gave It To You

In my heart
There is a love
That even I don't understand,

It is a love
That grows each day
And has a soul with out stretched hands,

Will you hold my heart
Would you be so kind
As to keep it safe
So that harm will not find

Could you keep it warm
When it's all alone,
Will you hold it close
As if it were your own,

Would you do all this
If I asked you to,
Would you love my heart
If I gave it to you -
Would you love my heart
If I gave it to you ---
(piano)

It's in my heart
Love grows each day
It wants so to love you
God don't push it away -

So could you keep it warm
When it's all alone,
Will you hold it close
As if it were your own-

Would you do all this
If I asked you to,
Would you love my heart
If I gave it to you -.- -.-

Karl W. Miller
© 1984

Ah, the Sun...

Enjoying the sun on a winters day.

Walk Away

So much I want to tell you
There's so much I want to say
But I'm afraid to tell you
Because you just might walk away-
The first time that I saw you
My heart was overjoyed,
I gave it to you freely
As you'd give a child a toy-
But you, you did not take it
You only stood and staired,
You seemed to be too surprised
Or was it you didn't care-
And then I stood beside you
And I talked with my eyes,
But you, you didn't see me
I couldn't break through your disguise-
And there's so much I want to tell you
And so much I want to say,
But I'm still afraid to tell you
Because you just might walk away
You just might walk away -.-

John Islander
KWM

Thanks for sharing.

I hope you have an opportunity to feel something as you read these various verses.

Her Name

I don't know what her name is
I only met her yesterday,
Just a brief "hello, how are you?"
I'm fine is all she'd say.
She turned away not knowing
that in my eyes she was a dream,
and in that moment as we stood there
I fell in love with her it seems.
Now I know that love is funny
and I know that love is strange
and it usually doesn't happen
as you stand out in the rain.
But inside me something happened
that to this day I can't explain,
I only wish that in that moment
I had asked that girl
her name -

Karl Miller
1983