The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: A teachers journey

  • As teachers we should guide to rather than lead to

    Bird Droppings November 5, 2011 As teachers we should guide to rather than lead to I walked out about 3:30 AM this morning taking my westie for her morning constitutional and off in the pines that are within a hundred feet of my house, several hundred acres of dense pines, a barred owl was calling.…

  • 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

    Bird Droppings November 4, 2011 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu I began the day thinking back to a song one of my students chose to write about several years ago, Live like you were dying by Tim McGraw. The assignment was to pick a favorite song and find the lyrics then explain…

  • Turning an ugly face jug

    Bird Droppings November 3, 2011 Turning an ugly face jug It has been a few years since the last time I talked with and watched the late Cleater Meadors turn a jug on the potter’s wheel at Mossy Creek Arts and Crafts fair in Perry Georgia. A simple lump of clay in a skilled artist’s…

  • The Day after

    Bird Droppings November 2, 2011 The Day after “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain I find myself using age to my advantage when the little girl at the register at Kroger asked for senior citizenship or not. I carry my AARP card with pride…

  • What could be more sacred than life itself?

    Bird Droppings November 1, 2011 What could be more sacred than life itself? Perhaps having been born on All Saints Day in St. Joseph’s Hospital gives me a better insight into the sacred than most normal folk. Of course then I have to consider that soon after I was born the Church dropped All Saints…

  • It takes more than one strand to make a rope

    Bird Droppings October 28, 2011 It takes more than one strand to make a rope “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.” Faith Baldwin Each day as I talk to my students I try and set…

  • Walking along the way in my own journey

    Bird Droppings October 27, 2011 Walking along the way in my own journey As I think back over who I am as a teacher and as a person I often wonder as to how I came to be the way I am and why do I take such a differing outlook than so many teachers…

  • Having a heart

    Bird Droppings October 26, 2011 Having a heart It is chilly out in northeast Georgia with evening temperatures still hanging in the high forties or low fifties but rumor of a near frost hanging out there has most of us gardeners bringing plants in. We have still a couple weeks till we are off from…

  • Who is responsible?

    Bird Droppings October 25, 2011 Who is responsible? Several weeks ago I was involved in a debate of sorts on the issue of public versus private education; it circled around and about really going not too far. Just a few days ago I picked up our local paper and a letter to the editor caught…

  • An eceltic morning

    Bird Droppings October 24, 2011 An eclectic morning Over the past week of vacation I was discussing with several friends, The DaVinci Code and other philosophical diversions and fearing death as a basis for religion came up somehow. “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die…