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Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu
Bird Droppings May 12, 2024Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu After returning from my sunrise photography, I walked into the house after running a few errands, and I spent an hour trying to photograph birds. I finally got to sit down to write. I was thinking back a few years…
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Wondering is a powerful tool.
Bird Droppings May 11, 2024Wondering is a powerful tool. Several years back, we started a school-wide vocabulary of the week during the school year. I was reminded of this as I looked through my various files for quotes. About eight years ago, as the day wound down, an email from the head of the English…
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Searching for a flower, the butterfly pea (Clitoria marina), or is it gone now
Bird Droppings May 10, 2024Searching for a flower, the butterfly pea (Clitoria marina), or is it gone now Interestingly, I had two thoughts earlier in the week as I started the day that made me think of them. One I heard on the radio going to get some gas in my wife’s car from a…
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We should many times question our questions.
Bird Droppings May 8, 2024We should many times question our questions. Yesterday, I was sitting at my computer area after a week or two of testing and then reading articles and innuendos about who and why Georgia students in high school and middle schools across the state do so poorly on certain mandatory tests. These…
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Being reborn is simply listening with the heart
Bird Droppings May 7, 2024 Being reborn is simply listening with the heart So often in life, we hear words and rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion, and then logically state a response. I got thinking back to a conversation sitting discussing existentialism with my granddaughter one night nearly eleven years ago as she cooed…
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Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
Bird Droppings May 6, 2024 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln Perhaps some people are inherently grouchy in the scheme of things, and or by Lincoln’s view, they want to be grouchy. Sitting…
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Innocence is more than a definition.
Bird Droppings May 3, 2024 Innocence is more than a definition. “Look at children. Of course, they may quarrel, but generally speaking, they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they…
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Pondering early in the morning in my search for wisdom
Bird Droppings May 2, 2024Pondering early in the morning in my search for wisdom I started my day by routinely having a cup of green tea on my back porch, checking bird feeders, running to the corner for a biscuit, and filling up my car. I walked out, checked the outside ambient temperature and air,…
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A rock flower and song
Bird Droppings April 29, 2024A rock flower and song A journey begins with a step, and apathy begins with turning your back and saying I don’t care. Before we left school for the virus last year, I had my last IEP. I recall my laptop was acting weirder than usual, and all of my school…
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I think it is funny that unwoke folks used “pronouns” first.
Bird Droppings April 25, 2024I think it is funny that unwoke folks used “pronouns” first. One of those days yesterday, and a word caught my attention as I was listening to a friend talk. The word was them. I never realized the extent of prejudice till a pronoun was used. Such words as they, them,…