Bird Droppings April 7, 2010 Listening for natures call Lately as I venture out in the wee hours of the morning whip o wills are calling. It has been a few years since I heard them with such regularity. They seem to start after midnight and go till nearly dawn. With a dense stand of…

Bird Droppings April 6, 2010 Take just a moment One of the biggest news stories back about three years ago during March Madness was the dethroning of a shock jock by his broadcasting company for slandering through his use of derogatory language. Thinking back I posted several notes on my graduate school discussion that night…

Bird Droppings April 5, 2010 It is about tomorrow Last Friday midst the various children passing through my room a discussion about how we view the future began in earnest. My contention was we modern folk do not look beyond this current moment very often. We tend to focus literally on now. I thought back…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2010 Finding where community exists As I approached the end of my doctorial course work I was involved in a class on Educational ethics which featured nine texts all of which had an under lying current of caring and relationships as keys to education or I should say to successful teaching.…

Bird Droppings April 1, 2010 Seeking peace “In this week of great destruction, we must each choose what road we are to walk and live. The road of destruction is war, it has always been so. The road of creation is deeper and more complicated; it has always involved forgiveness, love, light, prayer, and spirit.…

Bird Droppings March 31, 2010 Seeking Perfection midst the mud “I have found there are those who can write and speak fluently and yet do not have anything to say and then there are those who have something to say who may not be so fluent. The big question is who do, you listen too?”…

Bird Droppings March 30, 2010 An eclectic morning “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” Mahatma Gandhi It has been quite a few years since I watched an the episode of Star Trek actually it nay have been one of the movies where Spock…

Bird Droppings March 29, 2010 A morning meandering As I read through several emails several of my doctorate graduate school class mates are defending their dissertations in the coming weeks. In another set of emails from an article review group several commented on how these particular readings provided insight into successful educational programs. I actually…

Bird Droppings March 26, 2010 Ignorance versus the journey “If I want to justify my existence, and continue to be obsessed with the notion that I’ve got to do something for humanity well, teaching ought to quell that obsession and if I can ever get around to an intelligent view of matters, intelligent criticism of…

Bird Droppings March 25, 2010 Seeking a destination “Life is about the journey not the destination; we don’t know what tomorrow brings” Steven Tyler, AEROSMITH Every once in awhile I get amazed, and as I was driving from point A to point B not too many days ago a song was playing in my son’s…