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Compassion

RECESS

Step onto the Christ the King School during recess and you will be amazed at the activity.  One group of kids might be playing house, another playing Star Wars and yet another playing tag. This is going on at the same time as kids are playing four square, kick ball, basketball, football, are jumping rope, or just walking and talking.  On the side yard yet more kids are on the monkey bars, jungle gym or other play equipment.   The kids feel safe knowing that the three recess monitors, Anne Gozdecki, Jenny Annee, and Emma Kalinowski are on hand with one or two parent volunteers. Our playground supervisor Anne Gozdecki says, "The recess rules are pretty much the same as your own parenting rules and the golden rules...treat each other how you want to be treated.  No hitting, no fighting, no name calling, and listen to the recess monitors!  There are other obvious rules, such as don't go outside of the parking lot gates." We all remember recess on our childhood playgrou

It all ended in tears...

King Henry was sent for in the hour of her need

Queen Jane by Anonymous King Henry was sent for in the hour of her need King Henry came to her, and he came with all speed King Henry bent over her, and he kissed her on the lips Crying, "What ails my flower? Her eyes are so dim" "Henry, dear Henry, as I take you to be Pray open my right side and save my baby" "Oh no, Queen Jane, that never can be To lose my sweet flower just to save my baby" Queen Jane turned over and she fell into a swoon Her right side was opened and the baby was found How bright was the morning, how yellow was the bed How costly the shroud that Queen Jane was wrapped in Six men picked her up, and they carried her along King Henry followed after with his black mourning on King Henry he wept, and he wrung his hands till they were sore Crying, "The Flower of England will never bloom no more" "The Death Of Queen Jane" Old English Ballad. Public Domain.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

Drop Biscuits

Yield: 5 - 6 biscuits INGREDIENTS: • 1 cup Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix • 1/4 cup shortening • 1/3 cup plus 1 additional tablespoon milk DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 375°. In a large mixing bowl pour in Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix and cut in shortening with fork or pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pour milk into flour mixture while stirring with a fork. Do not let dough sit. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake 12 minutes, or until brown on top.

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres"

substitutions for cooking

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

Things that make you happy to be alive

we loved with a love that was more than love

One of my favorite poems: Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me- Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the