The daily meanderings of a teacher

Month: February 2011

  • Disipating embers can rekindle a fire

    Bird Droppings February 27, 2011 Dissipating embers can rekindle a fire Most mornings weather permitting I will sit out and spend a few moments meditating in the corner of our back yard currently over grown with local plant life and in bad need of a mowing. For several years I have used a bit of…

  • A series of paradoxes and bewilderments

    Bird Droppings February 25, 2011 A series of paradoxes and bewilderment I received the following in an email yesterday, a friend of mine sent it out and as I read the first time it was humorous. However as I pondered then as a teacher I read deeper into what was being said. I listened by…

  • It has been a long time

    Bird Droppings February 24, 2011 It has been a long time I was sitting along the edge of reality somewhere in my backyard listening to the wind blow threw the pines, it seems pine trees make a better sound till the oak trees have all their leaves in place. Sort of a circular thing as…

  • Can we listen to silence?

    Bird Droppings February 23, 2011 Can we listen to silence? Sitting in my yard as the moon is slowly dwindling almost down to a half moon as spring approaches. I was listening to the silence and to what was about me. I tried to hear the minutest of sounds, the echoes of dogs and coyotes…

  • Hope is more than a word it is a state of being

    Bird Droppings February 22, 2011 Hope is more than a word it is a state of being “Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air … but only for one second without hope.” Hal Lindsey It was quite nice though waking up to…

  • Wandering about

    Bird Droppings February 21, 2011 Wandering about I have been getting my cameras ready for spring. There are so many possibilities with various flowers blooming all about and baby ducks and geese soon at local lakes and ponds. However right now I have five new females fancy guppies and a gaudy male along with a…

  • So many are confused by religion

    Bird Droppings February 20, 2011 So many are confused by religion But as I sit here today thinking and wondering about all that is I am recalling last night involved in a blog discussion on religion which was interesting. There are so many views and ideas many intellectualized and quantified and stratified. It seems everyone…

  • Thinking about other times

    Bird Droppings February 18, 2011 Thinking about other times “The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to…

  • Blue sky and warm weather

    Bird Droppings February 18, 2011 Blue sky and warm weather It has been a long winter here in Georgia, I had to wear a jacket several times and we had snow on the ground more than twice. Actually had school closed for a week which is unheard of. Many mornings in the bitter cold I…

  • We are where we need to be

    Bird Droppings February 17, 2011 We are where we need to be I was outside for nearly thirty minutes sitting in the dark watching some smoke waft off of some sage as tree frogs for the first time broke the silence. The ambient temperature must be right I heard them last night as well. There…