The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings March 9, 2021Can we teach again a love of learning This has been a perplexing time of my life. I recall an event, a car wreck in which a young man was killed and his passenger who was a good friend of my youngest son was severely injured. My thoughts rambled back to…

Bird Droppings March 8, 2021Religion is what you make of it “A poor devotee points to the sky and says, ‘God is up there.’ An average devotee says, ‘God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master.’ The best devotee says, ‘God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.’” Ramakrishna Ramakrishna…

Bird Droppings March 5, 2021The inability of surmounting learning difficulties It has been a over a year since my surgical procedure to repair my Achilles tendon. I have been extremely occupied with writing lately. I had forgotten that two years or so ago I had four surgeries over about eight weeks. Two weeks back I…

Bird Droppings March 4, 2021Seeking perfection in a world full of mud “I have found there are those who can write and speak fluently and yet do not have anything to say and then there are those who have something to say who may not be so fluent. The big question is who do, you…

Bird Droppings March 3, 2021Teachers! We should always be near the edge. I remember taking groups hiking in North Georgia and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail dropping two hundred feet down looking over and nearly falling. A few summers…

Bird Droppings March 2, 2021We need LOVE Sometimes we so easily use the word love. It gets used daily by many folks and yet do we truly have any conception of what it is we speak. I was just in a conversation and the word love came up, I responded how we each have our…

Bird Droppings March 1, 2021I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING. “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” Carl G. Jung…

Bird Droppings February 27, 2021All of life is connected and intertwined. As I thought about the Sydney J. Harris passage below, I recall a walk last Saturday morning out to a quiet spot where I meditate, and something hit me. As I faced east towards the rising sun the gossamer threads of life interconnected with…

Bird Droppings February 26, 2021Dissipating embers can rekindle a fire Most mornings weather permitting I will sit out and spend a few moments meditating in the corner of our back yard currently over grown with local plant life and in bad need of a mowing. For several years I have used a bit of white…

Bird Droppings February 25, 2021 It is only a dropped feather? “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more beautiful and, therefore, naturally more valuable,’ or vice versa. Regardless of which colors are more beautiful, or necessary, or valuable, the truth is…