The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: The daily meanderings of a teacher

  • What is it we fear?

    Bird Droppings July 15, 2011 What is it we fear? “Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.” Ruth E. Renkel It has been many years since I feared the beating of my own heart. I recall as a child there was a pathway into the forest near the apartment we…

  • Listening to a Chorus of Frogs, Crickets and an occassional Owl

    Bird Droppings July 13, 2011 Listening to a chorus of Frogs, Crickets and an occasional owl “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd Most every night and early morning when I walk about especially early in the morning I am listening to the choral arrangement of tree frogs, crickets, whippoorwills…

  • It is all about communicating

    Bird Droppings July 12, 2011 It is all about communicating “I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to…

  • Is it really adversity?

    Bird Droppings July 11, 2011 Is it really adversity? “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” Robert Fulghum I was working in the yard most of the day yesterday when I was not at a reptile…

  • Healing is in all of us

    Bird Droppings July 10, 2011 Healing is in all of us “The first fact that distinguishes the human species from all others is that we are born too soon. We arrive incapable of taking care of ourselves for something like fifteen years.” Joseph Campbell, Pathways to bliss, 2004 It is so easy to get up…

  • Dodging rain drops

    Bird Droppings July 9, 2011 Dodging rain drops Georgia has been considerably drier this summer than the last. The surprise thunderstorms while often severe still have kept most trees green. I have been watering our flowers and of course with fertilizer they are growing so fast many fall over from their height and my herb…

  • Filtering into bottles

    Morning Bird Droppings July 8, 2011 Filtering into bottles “The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves…

  • Curriculum is it sacred?

    Bird Droppings July 7, 2011 Curriculum is it as sacred? So often even a miniscule one triggers with me a memory. We have a standing joke at our house about the rabbits that live around our yard. My wife continually mentions the book, Watership Downs, when addressing the bold creatures. Yesterday I was heading to…

  • Time has a definitive edge

    Bird Droppings July 6, 2011 Time has a definite edge Somewhere in my wanderings last week I forgot to write or perhaps could not find time was a better answer. Seldom in eight years of writing nearly daily have a missed more than a day at one time. For some reason I had days mixed…

  • Do we learn from a ripple or a wave?

    Bird Droppings July 5, 2011 Do we learn from a ripple or a wave? I spent most of the past few mornings digging and planting, transplanting and repotting various flowers and herbs in our yard. I had several one poor lemon verbena that had been hiding for about a month still in a seedling pot…