The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: The daily meanderings of a teacher

  • Reading a friends book for the tenth time

    Bird Droppings June 17, 2011 Reading a friend’s book for the tenth time Dr. James Sutton sent me a copy of his new book “What parents need to know about ODD”, nearly five years ago and I have been through it numerous times. Dr. Sutton is one of the leading writers and authorities on Oppositional…

  • Wandering around today and nearly missing a moment with my grand daughter

    Bird Droppings June 16, 2011 Wandering about today and nearly missed a moment with my grand daughter “Until you have a son of your own you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense…

  • Patience

    Bird Droppings June 15, 2011 Patience “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” William Faulkner When I first read this earlier it hit me hard, so often in life we want to accomplish that great task all in one quick movement and all at one time. It has been a…

  • Listening to John Lennon and reading John Dewey

    Bird Droppings June 14, 2011 Listening to John Lennon and reading John Dewey I ran my errands today including a trip to Barnes and Nobles. I got up and started my day driving and doing errands from yesterday and in the process a lot of thinking and pondering as I say. “As soon as you’re…

  • Using Calamity as an opening

    Bird Droppings June 13, 2011 Using calamity as an opening “Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.” William Davenant I wasn’t sure from where to start today as I have been busy, feeding snakes and animals at the high school, ordering two books for graduate school, spending most of last…

  • Keeping the energy flowing

    Bird Droppings June 12, 2011 Keeping the energy flowing I attend at least partially two Foxfire courses a year for teachers in Mountain City Georgia. This course is actually a graduate class of Piedmont College’s Education Department. Last night as my son and I made our way back, this was his first experience with Foxfire…

  • Is history what happened today or tomorrow?

    Bird Droppings June 11, 2011 Is history what happened today or tomorrow? I am sitting on the porch of the Long House at the Foxfire property listening to the rain side of the mountains. Several miles away thunder is brewing and I can smell rain. There have been discussions of history obviously at this place…

  • Sitting at my kitchen table pondering

    Bird Droppings June 10, 2011 Sitting at my kitchen table pondering I am very much a creature of habit. I like my routines and seem to follow very similar pathways daily. I can understand when walking through the woods and seeing a rabbit run or deer trail I would myself be doing the same thing…

  • Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering

    Bird Droppings June 9, 2011 Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering I drove to north Georgia on Sunday and Tuesday and have been babysitting Charlie my grand daughter in between. I enjoy the drive up into the mountains always going part of the way on back roads. As I was sitting around yesterday evening my oldest…

  • John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Bird Droppings June 8, 2011 John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson It has been a few days since I wrote in the morning perhaps the summer laziness has come upon me although last night it I was sitting and wondering where the loud sound outside the bedroom window was coming from. I got home…