Bird Droppings May 11, 2016 Is curriculum sacred? My wife and I are talking about taking a day hiatus to explore the North Georgia Mountains with no schedule and little baggage. We will head north Saturday morning no plans. Thinking back to our last crazy trip our last journey included a nursery or two, some…

Bird Droppings May 10. 2016 What is normal and can we define it quantitatively or qualitatively? Two years ago today I was rushing down highway 78 to find where my son had been involved in an accident. All I knew was it was near Walmart. I assumed it was near the huge distribution center and…

Bird droppings May 9, 2016 Do we learn from a ripple or a wave? Today I will be digging and planting, transplanting and repotting various flowers and herbs in our yard. I need to spend some time weeding eating the jungle now that we have from the rain and storms headed in. I have several…

Bird Droppings May 6, 2016 Should we be pondering the idea of faith or maybe trust? “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered, or the ultimate direction of the process. But now the speed of change is accelerating logarithmically. It is…

Bird Droppings May 4, 2016 Why do children do what they do? “Our task is to make our children into disciples of the good life, by our own actions toward them and toward other people. This is the only effective discipline in the long run. But it is more arduous, and takes longer, than simply…

Bird Droppings May 3, 2016 Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls It has been four years since I was staying at the Sylvan Mills Bed and Breakfast in a room literally over a waterfall. I went up to North Georgia to recharge perhaps another word might be to rekindle my passion for education…

Bird Droppings May 2, 2016 Is not every day a new journey begun? “School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.” Ivan…

Bird Droppings April 29, 2016 Watching a hawk fly by I was able to attend only a few track meets over the past few years and as always I did take a few photos as I tend to do. I recall about three years ago when I was not able to get to the region…

Bird Droppings April 28, 2016 I detest shopping but I really like Kroger It was interesting I had two thoughts while similar that came to me this morning as I started the day out. One I heard on the radio going to get gas for my wife a country music radio announcer recalling an old…

Bird Droppings April 26, 2016 Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration Nearly ten years ago at our county wide teacher kick off meeting which used to be before budget cuts traditionally a packaged inspirational meeting and welcome for the new school year lead by a brought in speaker. Someone is paid…