The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings February 5, 2021 What if all promises were all kept? I begin each typical morning waking up, fixing breakfast for my wife and her lunch, occasionally talking with my son for a few minutes before he starts teaching, fixing my own breakfast, and eventually finding my way to my computer. A little later…

Bird Droppings February 3, 2021Life is a puzzle falling into place amazing the interconnectivity of it all It was a Monday a few years back when my co-teaching partner shared a card with me from one of our students. On the first day of the semester we handed out a card and the kids fill…

Bird Droppings February 2, 2021To create writing, for some seems so difficult in a digital world. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was Brave…

Bird Droppings February 1, 2021Solitude is within one’s soul and heart “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear-filled eyes, one affirmation endures. One truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where there has…

Bird Droppings January 31, 2021Today is day one or so I am told Feeling old today now that I am working on my seventieth first year it is raining outside, my bones are aching. I remember nearly fifteen years ago as we got closer to the last day in our old house it was appropriately…

Bird Droppings January 30, 2021Reconciliation of trust “It’s the examination of conscience. Unless you examine your conscience, you don’t know what you have to be sorry for and what to confess” Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M., S.T.D., Ten Tips for Better Confessions, The Gift of Reconciliation Sort of difficult ending the week with a vocabulary word and…

Bird Droppings January 29, 2021 Counting knuckles is that considered totally normal?  One of my students asked a few years back what day of the month the following Friday would be, and I responded January 30. Just as quick another said he thought it was the first. I said no it was the thirty first…

Bird Droppings January 28, 2021Gratitude is an action “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” Chief Seattle, 1854 A few months back on most mornings I was driving to…

Bird Droppings January 26, 2021 All in the words we choose to find Over the years I have been a fan of singer song writers. There are many I could list but one eluded me for some time, Tom Petty. I knew the name and I could tell you that was a heartbreaker song but…

Bird Droppings January 25, 2021 I am just sitting, pondering and thinking while wiping away a tear or two It was several years ago that I was outside early as a great horned owl was irritating our dog keeping her up. It seems it was more than one as around me several were calling back…