The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: The Art of Learning: Using the Foxfire Core Practices as a pallette

  • Driving up a mountain takes effort

    Bird Droppings June 5, 2012 Driving up a mountain takes effort   I am looking forward to the trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire property and Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching in another week or so. My oldest son was took the course…

  • How do we see things?

    Bird Droppings June 4, 2012 How do we see things?               When I spend time alone with my granddaughter who is now eighteen months old we communicate in a sort of pointing fingers, hand signs, words, facial gestures and occasionally a pop pop I will show you what I want look as she picks…

  • Am I home?

    Bird Droppings June 3, 2012 Am I home?   It is a new morning; a cool morning for June yet the warmth of summer will soon overcome the welcome of the morning according to the weather. I walked out on a back porch with silence in the darkness save for the friendly chirp of crickets…

  • Time do we need it?

    Bird Droppings June 2, 2012 Time do we need it?   “I still can’t see any reason to count all the sand on the beach – why bother? Or minutes, either. Could I possible add one more minute to my life by counting them?” Fernando Payaguaje, Secoya healer and holy man, translated from Secoya by…

  • Following the path

    Bird Droppings June 1, 2012 Following the Path   “In our way of life, with every decision we make, we always keep in mind the Seventh Generation of children to come. When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully, because we know that the faces of future generations are looking up…

  • Pondering in my search for wisdom

    Bird Droppings May 31, 2012 Pondering my search for wisdom               I started my day a bit later than normal being out from school and trying to get over a summer cold and my plans include yard work, writing and a finishing up several pieces of my graduate portfolio later today so I was…

  • Filling cracks in leaky pots

    Bird Droppings May 30, 2012 Filling cracks in leaky pots   Many thousands of years ago Buddha compared people to four kinds of clay vessels. Borrowing these words today as I am thinking to a day lost yesterday in my normal routine of writing and doing things. A lost day but a full day, time…

  • It will be an interesting day

    Bird Droppings May 29, 2012 It will be an interesting day   I was up earlier than normal and went back to bed after sitting out for a few minutes around midnight or so. It was peaceful sitting in the coolness of a summer evening. I thought earlier we were going to have a storm.…

  • A special Bird Droppings on Memorial Day 2012

    A special Bird Droppings on Memorial Day 2012               The summer of 2007 holds many moments of sadness and still flitting around in the sadness many moments of joy. It was in May I received a call to front office and was told to call my wife, I knew immediately something was wrong as…

  • Finding at what point we exist

    Bird Droppings May 28, 2012 Finding at what point we exist               Today is an ordinary day for many people round the world however other than being one extra day on a long holiday weekend it is a time for those of us in this country to remember those military members who have passed…