__ LIPS – Leading in Public Schools

We have all, no doubt, been humbled and horrified by the scenes from the fires in Victoria: the sheer magnitude of human tragedy and the stories which will continue to be told.  It leads us to reflect upon the nature of material possessions, of absolute failure to begin to understand the motivation for those who would start such a blaze, and awe at the power of nature with its capability to create an inferno on earth.

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. 

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Our thoughts are with those whose lives have been taken from them, in each and every sense of the words.