The daily meanderings of a teacher

Month: May 2013

  • Life is about practice

    Bird Droppings May 19, 2013 Life is about practice On a wet cloudy and stormy Sunday morning in Georgia with a high school graduation only a few hours previous I am thinking ahead. I often wonder at how to tell graduating seniors to ponder and think about the future. How do you build upon what…

  • It seems to be a new morning?

    Bird Droppings May 17, 2013 It seems to be a new morning? Last night I had my son drive up to the corner store to get a few things. When he I had been waiting outside and the sounds of the evening were stilled from the chill all the humming, whistling, chirping and barking that…

  • Reading a friend’s book a fifth time

    Bird Droppings May 16, 2013 Reading a friend’s book a fifth time I was so tired when I laid down last night after driving around doing errands, working in the yard, working in my gardens, and attempting to get into my reading and writing. My youngest son is waiting to hear on a nursing program…

  • Can we seek balance while walking on a see saw?

    Bird Droppings May 15, 2013 Can we seek balance while walking on a see saw? “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau I walked in my room at school yesterday and missed my stuffed eland on the wall; the largest African antelope was removed when I moved to a…

  • How hard it is to find the trail in the search for knowledge?

    Bird Droppings May 14, 2013 How hard it is to find the trail in the search for knowledge? “All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly…. We have the right hand…

  • Is innocence more than a definition?

    Originally posted on The daily meanderings of a teacher: Bird Droppings May 13, 2013 Is innocence more than a definition? I start my mornings standing in the dark listening before I drive to school. Listening wondering pondering I might say. When I sit down and begin to write I will many times pick up my…

  • Is innocence more than a definition?

    Bird Droppings May 13, 2013 Is innocence more than a definition? I start my mornings standing in the dark listening before I drive to school. Listening wondering pondering I might say. When I sit down and begin to write I will many times pick up my ear phones and put on something I enjoy Carlos…

  • Children learn what they live do they not?

    Bird Droppings May 12, 2013 Children learn what they live do they not? It is such a beautiful morning and quiet outside, I had the opportunity to sit and meditate for nearly an hour just after the rising sun pushed across the wheat fields behind our house. I took pictures through a large portion of…

  • Searching for, looking at and finally placing those pieces into the puzzle

    Bird Droppings May 10, 2013 Searching for, looking at and finally placing those pieces into the puzzle “The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ”social worker” -judge.” Dr. Michael Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas It has been…

  • It is said dreams do not stand alone

    Bird Droppings May 8, 2013 It is said dreams do not stand alone “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach It has been so many years since I first experienced the whimsical book Jonathan Livingston Seagull,…