New Schools

New Schools

The academic period of the New Schools will be in the morning hours of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the seven-day week for four hours a day.

Free enrichment courses (Sports, Art, Crafts Agriculture, Manual Arts, etc.) will fill the rest of the current school week. (Mondays and Fridays from 8-3 and afternoons of the other week days. Weekends and holidays will have no school as in old schools.

Academic studies will be: Computer proficiency, Communication, Math and Sciences, History and Geography. Children at age 14 will add more advanced levels of subjects. At age 16 there will be a two-year hiatus from school. At age 18 only those students with sincere interest will continue with advanced academic studies.

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Bucky Wisdom

I came across this bit of Bucky wisdom in a U-tube video.

I had just photographed some chemtrails criss-crossing the sky

over Paso Robles, CA and was planning to mount another tirade

against this practice of public pollution--but now I begin to think:

"Why bother?" Those obviously very powerful persons responsible 

for this bizarre covert-in-plain-sight project have their reasons, no doubt,

for clandestine secrecy which will come to light someday.

Chemtrails are the existing reality. Maybe we can build a new model.

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Icon

Russian Orthodox Icon

(Illustration for music video on U-tube:
Russian Orthodox Choir Chanting Choral Vocal Top 10.)

This  music is extraordinary.

I learned long ago that an icon can be
a "window into the World of Spirit",
but I have seldom experienced this phenomenon.

For me this icon
--plus the accompanying music--
is that window

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Jale Juntos

 

 Adagio for Strings, Detroit Symphony Orchestra

With time, patience and sincere effort,

beautiful things can be accomplished 

working together.

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Migrants

Door of Europe Monument

Lampedusa Island, Italy 

(Reuters photo)

 

Thousands of the migrants from Africa, Asia and other parts of the world 

are arriving on this island in the hope of finding a better life in Europe.

Mostly young men, often without education or useful skills, 

these young people need help.

 

This is an unusual, unique opportunity.

 

If residents of Europe will temporarily give them living aide, 

train them to useful work and welcome them, 

no doubt they will be valuable future citizens. 

 

It is the same with migrants and refugees all over the world 

 

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They're BACK

They're BACK!!

I was really worried for a few weeks.

There were NO more or less permanant contrails

in the sky over Paso.

Now I am happy to report that THEY'RE BACK!

Of course they are not officially back--

in fact they don't officially exist--

but shortly after noon today they started to be 

traced across the sky by planes so high 

they are a mere speck in the sky--

ah, but their chem---uh--CON trails

paint the sky with their usual smears fairly pronto.

Since these trails don't exist I should not notice them-

but since they have been absent for a month just had to..

Like a bad penny or a ghost--they just keep appearing!

Hello, Dolly!

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Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking (BBC documentary)

This amazing seriously handicapped man;
still curious, still interested in the universe.

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CERN Aerial View

Aerial view of CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Looks like a nature refuge park.
I wonder what lives in that pond in the middle?

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Tesla

"Nikola Tesla, The Master of Lightning" Discovery History Channel, PBS.

Nikola Tesla (c.1919, USA.)

Video picture illustrating alternating current idea.

Early large electric generator.

Nikola Tesla, a man with unusual visualization abilities,

inventor of many electrical devises, died poor in NYC.

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"Light is electricity vibrating at ultra high frequencies'" 

(Maxwell)

"Light is the first manifestation of the absolute."

"Consciousness is fundmental."

Peter Russell , Physics of Consciousness Conference, 

Virginia Beach, NC. USA, Nov. 2004

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Chemtrails Not

Did whoever is in charge of this program

get tired of doing it?

The sky has been clear of this peculiarity

for a couple of weeks now.

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Updated this 1 August 2015, some suspicious clouds but no
dramatic chemtrails for weeks. I kind of miss not having them
crosshatching the sky to grouse about! 

A little bluer sky in El Paso de Robles, CA.

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People Doing

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With internet and personal computer.

In the quiet of my apartment

I see and hear people doing--

And want to communicate so much.

The emerging world consciousness

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CERN

I think this is a meeting room at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
installation on the Swiss/French border in Europe.

Scientists there are hoping to discover more about the nature
of the universe by their experiments with electricity in
a seventeen-mile underground circular tunnel
rigged with special equipment.

Some think these experiments, which may be concerned
with "anti-matter",  may be quite dangerous.


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Dr.Peter Wadhams

Dr. Peter Wadhams, University of Cambridge

(Global warming scientist,specialist on North Polar region.)

 (From the U Tube video: Our Time is Running Out--
The Arctic Sea Ice is melting.

"Our children only have a future only if we take action now."
"There is a conspiracy of complacency throughout the world."
"Our own inertia will  lead us not to take action
until its too late to save ourselves."

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Hero Holocaust

 

Sir Nicholas Winton,

rescuer of 669 Jewish children

during the Holocaust died today at 106.

(BBC)

He did his bit.

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flag

"This flag is coming down today!"

South Carolina Statehouse Confederate flag taken down by Brdee Newsome

today .June 27th 2015.

Good job.


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Groundhog Day

Here is a quotation from an essay by Austin Kleon concerning the artist or creative person:

Pretend you are Phil Conners in Groundhog Day

"...There's no tomorrow, there's no chance of success

there's no chance of failure, there's just the day

and what you can do with it."

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Dalai Lama 80

The Dalai Lama celebrates his 80th Birthday today

in Dharamsala, India.

You have done well, Tenzin Gyatso.

Thank you for everything.

I hope I am around to wish you a happy 90th!

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Black people murdered

President Obama, June 19, 2015.

Nine black people were murdered

in a church in Charlotte, NC by a young white man

who wanted to start a "some kind of civil war".

All of us are sad.

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Pope Francis letter

Pope Francis, CNN news June 19, 2015.

 

 

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology,

has made a clear statement that he believes the current global warming

and the ecological degradation of the earth, "our home", 

is caused by us--humanity.

I am glad he has made this bold and unprecedented statement 

since he speaks

to motivate his millions of religious followers 

to become better stewards of the earth.

persistent jet contrail early morning June 19 2015 Paso Robles, CA.

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conspiracy?

My photo June 17, 2015, Paso Robles, CA about 0900.

After five days without persistent jet contrails,

yesterday was  back to pollution as usual.

All day the high-flying jets were spreading their stuff over the sky

and by evening the sky was gray with whatever it is

they are spraying.

I am an older person--I remember the first jet airplane my 

schoolmates and I had ever seen from  a school yard in Los Angeles--

we called it a "flying stovepipe" since it had no propeller.

I am very familiar with contrails since they were made by

many high-flying jet airplanes over the years, but these smudgy clouds

are not contrails.

Why do responsible people deny that something is being done to the air

we all must breathe?

When something is so obviously being done in the sky

can noticing it be called a conspiracy?

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Today's first contrail

The first of today's "persistent jet contrails"--but not the last!

There are now six more forming a neat tic-tac-toe pattern 

in the sky above the town of Paso Robles,CA. Just the way

commercial jet liners always have done--especially since there 

are no commercial flight patterns over this town.

We wonder why, if these are beneficial, 

no one is willing to take credit for them.

The pilots doing the job must be being paid a lot!

 

Will no Snowden come forth to expose who, what and why

these things, which do not officially exist, exist?

 

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Five Days

Five days without persistent jet contrails.

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4 days without contrails

I believe this is the fourth day without 

high-flying large jet propelled aircraft 

leaving persistent contrails overhead

 in Paso Robles, California USA.

Thanks for giving us a break, whoever is usually doing this.

(Oh, that's right--no-one is doing it.)

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No Junk

"I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts."

Peace Pilgrim

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Cerebral Palsy Swagger

In this morning's news a 15 year old boy, Hunter, carried his brother. Brandon,

fifty-seven miles piggyback to raise awareness for cerebral palsy sufferers.

He did not do it to raise money, but  to make us more aware 

of this limiting physical condition.

Hunter called his trek "The Cerebral Palsy Swagger".

Good job.

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Dalai and Climatologist

Dr. Richard Somerville and the Dalai Lama

Yesterday evening I was watching a video featuring Dr. Richard Somerville:

"Urgent Action Limit Climate Change" by the Scripps Oceanographic Institute 

in San Diego,, when near the end of the presentation,

the above photograph was included.

I was surprised and pleased to see one of my favorite people, 

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama,  adding his

concern for the global climate change problem .

Dr. Somerville suggested that with the help of "trusted messengers" such 

as the Dalai Lama, the catastrophic results of current planetary 

climate change could possibly be mitigated.

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Chomsky Krauss Dialogue

I enjoy these scholars on You Tube.

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Wake Up

This is what we wake to almost every day.

Imagination? 

Contrails?

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Geo engineering

All things share the same breath; the beast, the tree, the man.

The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Chief Seattle

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Geoengineering

This is not happening

The once blue sky overhead is not crisscrossed by vapor trails

(We won't call them "chem-trails" since they don't exist.)

The sky is white with poison, 

aluminum particles or whatever it is that is being sprayed-- 

by these hundreds of high flying jet planes

but we won't complain because nothing is being sprayed.

Besides--who could we complain to since geoengineered sprayed clouds don't exist.

(Contrails have been there for years, you fool!)

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Noam Chomsky

Charles Lindbergh

Today is an anniversary of the daring flight 

 by pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh

across the Atlantic ocean in 1927 

to become the first human to stand 

in New York and Paris on the same day--

a feat which is duplicated in comfort daily 

by thousands now.

Lindbergh said:

"What civilization was not founded on adventure."

and

"We live today in the dreams of yesterday 

and, living those dreams,

dream again.

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B.B. King Memorial

Blues music's king.

"The song has ended

but the melody lingers on."

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Aaron Schwartz

"Everything you've learned is only provisional."

Aaron Schwartz, computer expert, hounded by government to suicide.
R.I.P.

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Some Times

Some times following

Some times leading

Some times learning

Some times teaching

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Life Surfing

Surfers may have it right:

 Get ready. 

Enter the element in the best place.

Wait until conditions are right, 

then with a few powerful strokes

get up to speed.

Stand up. 

Balance, moving on the board.

Stay just ahead of the break

and ride it out

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Curriculum

Most high school students here in California carry cell telephones

equipped with camera, calculator, GPS and flashlight. 

At present they are far more interested in these devices 

and skilled in their use than in traditional computers 

or traditional classroom activities.

 If they can read, send simple messages and understand simple arithmetic,

by using their cell phones, they can function successfully in today's society.

Athletic endeavors, operating appropriate machines, driving cars, 

getting along with others and feeling good about themselves 

are also very important features of contemporary education

 and schools, as they exist, are good places to learn and practice these skills.

Deeper learning, the sciences and humanities, of classical education, 

while enriching to human society and individuals,

are perhaps not so necessary for all and could be

undertaken as desired only by such persons 

who wish to follow such pursuits.

Deeper education could be understood as a lifelong process

not necessarily finished

in a specific four or five year make-or-break curriculum.

Unfortunately, cellphones transmit huge doses of radiation into the bodies of users
and will probably be the main cause of illness in the near future
as popular cigarette smoking was to an earlier generation..

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Salvador Lopez

 

A homemade memorial over the sidewalk

one block from our apartment..

Sometimes fresh flowers or a burned-out candle in a jar. 

Someone remembers,

Someone.

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Mountain

Was here

took this photograph.

Born lucky.

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Down Home

Relaxed, friendly, got cars, not too concerned with appearances.
Not Switzerland and not Ghana,
Me, I like it--but  probably wouldn't want to live here.

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Mop Cat

 

 Cat plus mop in Nogales, Arizona.

This is one of my all-time favorite cat photos.

I was going to write about the pressing need to create jobs for people--

especially young people who want to "earn a living" when there are so few

meaningful work opportunities--FDR's "Right to Work" as one of the 

basic rights, and a needed one, in this democracy, 

when I chanced on this photo

 made on a road trip a few years ago

which made me smile.

Maybe this cat has the right attitude to work after all!

And, just for fun, here is a photo Tanya took of me.

 Same day.  Same street.
(That sunny hill behind me is in Mexico.)

You-all have a nice day too!

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Gophers

Almost every day we walk a few blocks to a little park in a valley with a seasonal brook and oak trees.

This park (we call it a "parkito") may be there because it is in a rather abrupt and fairly deep valley--too steep for housing development though there are house lots all around it. There are no restrooms, playground or picnic tables--it is just a bit of common ground for dog walking and such urban activities.

What we like is that there is no traffic and usually no people or anything but natural features and inhabitants.

We have seen a land turtle, a family of deer, lots of birds including five or six wild ducks which stay the winter until the brook drys up  There are pollywogs in the spring and some minnows--though we don't see how they can survive since the brook is dry most of the year and a long way from any flowing water and there are several "towns" of gophers.

The gopher towns are very lively probably because there are few predators. The parkito is surrounded by busy streets and residences so we think no coyotes have made it into the animal mix and don't ask me how the deer managed to get in! Now and then a hawk flies around hopefully, but the gophers seem pretty wary of attack from the sky.

It is amusing to think that these little animals seem to enjoy life very much without grocery stores, schools or police. They are really on their own.

Tanya put her video of "our" gophers on the web for you

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Butterflies Video

We have a new video camera and Tanya

made this video on You Tube.

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Simple Gifts

I like this tune and the philosophy in the lyrics.

SIMPLE GIFTS

18th century Shaker Song (traditional)

'Tis a gift to be simple,

'Tis a gift to be free, 

'Tis a gift to come down

Where we ought to be.

And when we find ourselves

In the place just right,

'Twil be in the valley

Of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained,

To bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed.

To turn, turn will be our delight,

'Til by turning, turning we come round right.

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Patience Reminder

One of necessary qualities in this long uphill hike:

Nothing good can happen before its time.

Relax. Keep the Faith. Be happy.

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Epic Review

I have been working as a substitute school teacher for a while.

Yesterday I was at a high school and my lesson plan, assigned by the regular teacher who was ill, was to show the fairly new nature fantasy movie/video EPIC, a state of the art full-length cartoon.

The students liked it and so did I.

There is a motto stated  by "Leafman", an insect-sized hero in the movie : "Many leaves, one tree", which is a cool new way of stating one of the old spiritual ideas--we are all separate but still connected. No one is alone. And a wise old caterpillar says: "Just because you don't SEE the connection doesn't mean they're not there."

I thought this very old wisdom was presented in an easily grasped way for a new generation.

I also appreciated the advice given by the Queen of the Forest to the teen age heroine: "You get back what you give." The girl goes on to save the forest by using her father's technology which I thought was a nice touch--a teen age woman saving the natural world with technology.

This film is not everybody's cup of tea, of course, but, for its targeted teen-age audience, I thought it was carefully crafted and well done..

Everything good in our own little patch of forest after the spring rains.

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Cats of Mirikitani

There is a video called "The Cats of Mirikitani" that I especially like.

It tells the story of the life of a young Japanese man who is put onto a concentration camp in California at the beginning of the second world war. His "crime" is that he is Japanese. After the war he stays in America and has a solitary life as an old artist eventually living on the street in New York and selling his art work--mainly pictures of cats--to the city people who pass by.

In the winter of 2011 when the New York towers are attacked by Islamists he survives covered in ash. He is befriended by a younger New York woman who helps him find a place to live and to sell his work.

Maggie, our part-time pet in Redding.

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