The daily meanderings of a teacher

Month: October 2012

  • What are we doing to our kids?

    Bird Droppings October 8, 2012 What are we doing to our kids?   I started writing this in addition to yesterday’s thoughts just before heading to North Georgia to drop off our granddaughter fully intending on completing and having ready to post my dropping for the day and one thing led to another and soon…

  • Surmounting difficulties

    Bird Droppings October 7, 2012 Surmounting difficulties   “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss   “There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Bottome   It has…

  • Where do we find happiness?

    Bird Droppings October 5, 2012 Where do we find happiness?   “The very purpose of our life is happiness; the very motion of our lives is toward happiness.” the Dalai Lama   It has been several years since in my journey through life I wandered through the Mall of Athens on a particular day. It…

  • Pondering is that a word?

    Bird Droppings October 4, 2012 Pondering is that a word?   Today is an interesting day; I am within a few hours of finishing an IEP for a student and preparing several lesson plans for next week. I was thinking back a few years to our last house, it is so welcome to be back…

  • Why are we only a small part of all that is?

    Bird Droppings October 3, 2012 Why are we only a small part of all that is? It is often very difficult for some to except being simply a part of and not the central focus of life around them. I was watching the beginning of the movie Seven Pounds and in the first scene or…

  • Can we find Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert?

    Bird Droppings October 2, 2012 Can we find Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert? I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom sage…

  • How my studies are making sense?

    Bird Droppings October 1, 2012 How my studies are making sense?   My head feels like a sponge from a cold perhaps why I was sitting thinking back to a day we as teachers in Walton County were not paid as it was one of our furlough days imposed by our governor and of students…