“Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can…

Bird Droppings October 22, 2010 As a teacher do I build doors or walls? I enjoy arriving at school while the stars are still shining over head I can remember when my youngest would ride to school with me; he is not quite as big a fan of that as I am. He misses that…

Bird Droppings October 19, 2010 Always looking for definitive meaning Today I walked out into the darkness and was hoping for some rain as the promised cold front collided with the warm front and rain was supposed to be falling. I may have been too foggy to realize till I was alone and did not…

Bird Droppings October 18, 2010 Thinking ahead Occasionally I will have a crazy thought although my students will say occasionally I have a normal thought and that would be more like it. They are insinuating most of my thoughts are crazy. My youngest son wed this past weekend and the ceremony was held under an…

Bird Droppings October 14, 2010 I have found over the years you can not fence a friend I am sitting in my kitchen a bit later than normal since we are out of school today writing trying to get everything done before we leave for Florida and my youngest sons wedding Saturday. There are so…

Bird Droppings October 13, 2010 Is wisdom, knowing the difference between success and failure? “Wisdom is not taught. Systems are taught. Wisdom comes from experiencing life.” James Kavanaugh, Celebrate the Sun A friend was writing about her success as a writer in her daily blog and most responded monetarily with the old adage that money…

Bird Droppings October 12, 2010 Seeing our purpose in life It has been over five years since I started writing this piece. I went out this morning with many questions on my mind. I Have a significant paper to write, a wedding coming up to officiate, a new grandbaby on the way, new and old…

Bird Droppings October 11, 2010 Words can be or are wisdom I am sitting here at least thinking about writing papers for grad school and word’s is what is on my mind right now. I just commented on a facebook post about learning languages and how I know enough in several languages to survive and…

Bird Droppings October 10, 2010 Why are we missing Creativity? This was another quiet morning as I wandered out a bit too chilly for crickets and frogs although later in the day several tree frogs visited around the house. The air was still not a breeze as I sat in my old wicker rocking chair…