Author: birddroppings

  • Wandering about for a bit

    Bird Droppings May 5, 2010 Wandering about for a bit I went walking with my dog yesterday afternoon. I headed from the house with camera in hand. I was looking at the land next to our house. Covered in grass with a few young pecan, persimmon, and mimosa trees it looks harmless enough. As I…

  • Trying to top a previous days thought

    Bird Droppings May 4, 2010 Trying to top a previous days thought Nearly every day I sit down and write some days it makes it into my daily or almost daily ritual Bird Droppings and others well into my files for later use. It has been a few months back that I received an email…

  • Looking for truth in an untruthful world

    Bird Droppings May 3, 2010 Looking for truth in an untruthful world I started a book titled Every day is a good day, Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous women, by the late Wilma Mankiller, past Chief of The Cherokee Nation and Native American Activist, author lecturer and several time cancer survivor. I even borrowed my status…

  • Looking for data in a data-less enviroment

    Bird Droppings April 30, 2010 Looking for data in a data-less environment I read earlier this morning a dialogue of sorts from a young man who is currently serving in the military. He is trying to decide on his future as he pieces together in his dialogue options and possibilities not just in his immediate…

  • Thinking about a Neil Young song

    Bird Droppings April 28, 2010 (Got my dates mixed up yesterday) Thinking about a Neil Young song I often find myself listening to Neil Young; I even have a 1971 live CD on my blackberry. For nearly forty years I have been a fan and some time in May he is coming to Atlanta I…

  • Are you a Weginahsa?

    Bird Droppings April 29, 2010 Are you a Weginahsa? It is just barely four o’clock in the morning and my westie needed to take a run outside to do her morning thing. Lately she has slept most of the night but today after I had finished off my bagel and cream cheese she started barking…

  • Hearing can be an active pursuit

    Bird Droppings April 27, 2010 Hearing can be an active pursuit Walking out into a moon lit morning listening to owls and whippoorwills calling through the stillness is something for me of a humbling nature. With a slight chill in the air the past few mornings crickets and tree frogs have been silent and as…

  • A founding father

    Bird Droppings April 26, 2010 A founding father “Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” Alexander Hamilton As I looked through news this morning many of the situations go back to ideas and thoughts begun…

  • Missing a day

    Bird Droppings April 23, 2010 Missing a day So often I speak of coincidence in life. Yesterday afternoon and evening while helping my wife with a power point presentation I was also working on a new Bird Droppings. Some ideas had hit me and I was putting to paper or hard drive so to say.…

  • How do we filter it all?

    Bird Droppings April 22, 2010 How do we filter it all? “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.” T.S. Elliot Sifting through the tons of information that bombard us daily is a task, be it emails, text messages, cell phone calls, advertising on the…