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.