Bird Droppings July 13, 2015 Hearing and listening are critical “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Epictetus A simple analogy yet we far too often do not understand that statement and perhaps it is because we have more jaw muscle than ear muscle.…

Bird Droppings July 10, 2015 Hunting for the right words A few days back I was discussing with several other teachers a children’s book, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. It seemed I was alone in my interpretation of what Silverstein was trying to elicit from readers. As the discussion wound through varying degrees of…

Bird Droppings July 9, 2015 I am just sitting, pondering and thinking wiping away a tear or two I was outside very early today as a great horned owl was irritating my dog keeping him up. It seems it was more than one as around me several were calling back and forth in an eerie…

Bird Droppings July 8, 2015 Direction is needed when speaking of velocity Over the past long weekend I worked on several paper ideas, sat in the recliner, dabbled in my yard briefly around rain drops and played with my grandkids. But I got thinking back to a party in Pennsylvania that was held nearly seven…

Bird Droppings July 7, 2015 There is a reason I am told “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” Robert Byrne I have often wondered about this thought as have so many before me and will after I am gone. Philosophers wonder and wise men ponder, is there purpose, a reason for each…

Bird Droppings July 6, 2015 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert? I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom sage…

Bird Droppings July 31, 2013 Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum Or Can I get a nickels worth of cheese There is something about the first light on a summer’s morning. It could be about trying to discern how many different birds are singing and calling back and forth as they are waking up. It…

Bird Droppings June 3, 2015 Finding a way to forgive “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi It is almost a year since I spent the morning on a field tip of sorts for a graduate school class. We visited the MLK Jr. Memorial Center on Auburn Street…

Bird Droppings July 1, 2015 In pursuit of excellence in learning I was listening to crickets and tree frogs as the sounds of morning surrounded me with the rustling of leaves in the steady breeze as I sojourned out in the wee hours. It is a great day to walk this reality thank you. “We…

Bird Droppings June 26, 2015 Culture is far more than just a word “Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and granting a space of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regardful of the rule that thought comes before speech. In the midst of sorrow, sickness, death or misfortune of…