Bird Droppings April 21, 2010 Before his time “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.” Arthur Schopenhauer Many great thinkers have found their motivation and beginnings in Schopenhauer. Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the first westerners to read and understand Eastern thought. He was well read and written which…

Bird Droppings September 18, 2007 Green Bay Wisconsin is cold “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” Vince Lombardi It has been a few days since I used a Lombardi quote. Years back I can recall my father borrowing verbiage from the great coach of the Green bay Packers…

Bird Droppings April 19, 2010 POTENTIAL “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and magically merged into a lifelong friendship. And I’ve…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2010 Horses and Trains and learning It has been many years since I last rode on a train. I mean a serious train going more then the distance between concourses at an airport. Years ago when I lived in the Philadelphia area, we all used mass transit to commute, to go…

Bird Droppings April 16, 2010 Habits or routine “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to follow…

Bird Droppings April 15, 2010 Around us “I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.” Confucius, BC 551-479 At 3:19 AM I woke up to a creak in the house, just a small sound, perhaps the anticipation of our dog waking up but something caught my…

Bird Droppings April 14, 2010 All in a name On February 3, 2003 I officially started titling my daily emailing, Bird Droppings. I went back in my files and pulled up a few old thoughts and ideas. Along with my new name in 2003 some other bits and pieces as I was reading, the local…

Bird Droppings April 13, 2010 Getting back the passion It is not just in teaching but in life we need to seek passion. Passion in life is about looking for that sunrise and or sunset, savoring the colors as they melt into night or change to day time. It is that passion about lifting your…

Bird Droppings April 12, 2010 A rock flower and song A journey begins with a step and apathy begins with turning your back and saying I don’t care. Yesterday afternoon my laptop was acting weirder than normal all of my school email jumped to my personal outlook account and then disappeared all my address book…

Bird Droppings April 11, 2010 Finding solutions in all the right places I had a few errands before sitting down to write today and still had time to stop at Quick Trip. The friendly smiles and hellos make me keep coming back. Actually so many mornings my sojourn to the local QT is filled with…