The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 14, 2021 How do we make learning successful? As I do on many mornings when I get the time I walked out to a quiet corner of my back yard. Nestled in a patch of weeds and brush I laid claim to my quiet spot and look toward the east in the morning.…

Bird Droppings May 13, 2021Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfall. It has been nine 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 and…

Bird Droppings May 12, 2021Can we be about healing? I came out earlier today into the darkness and the first thing I heard was a bullfrog off in the distance calling that was the first one of the summers. As I listened, I heard more I heard many birds starting to chirp, whistle and call.…

Bird Droppings May 11, 2021Life and acceptance is often getting over fears As I stepped outside into a beautiful morning, we were hoping for a bit of sunshine, but rain is in the forecast and the humidity is hanging in the air. The grass was like walking on a sponge soggy and wet but then…

Bird Droppings May 10, 2021Pondering early in the morning in my search for wisdom I started my day as I routinely a cup of green tea on my back porch, check bird feeders, fix breakfast and today run to the corner and fill my wife’s car with fuel. I walked out checking the outside ambient…

Bird Droppings May 9, 2021Filling cracks in leaky pots Many thousands of years ago Buddha compared people to four kinds of clay vessels. Borrowing these words today as I am thinking to several days lost with the current pandemic. I have been disrupted from my normal routine of teaching, writing and doing things around the…

Bird Droppings May 7, 2021 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln Perhaps in the scheme of things there are people who are inherently grouchy and or by Lincoln’s view they simply want to…

Bird Droppings May 6, 2021 Can we die a happy death? Perhaps it was the passing of my mother that pulled me to this idea. It may be the passing of so many former high school friends. It makes me wonder why I am writing about a specific topic although often it is something simply…

Bird Droppings May 5, 2021We should many times question our questions? Yesterday I was sitting in my computer area after a week or two of articles and innuendos about who and why Georgia students in high school and middle schools across the state do so poorly on certain mandatory tests. These are Georgia’s version of…

Bird Droppings May 4, 2021Being reborn is listening with the heart. So often in life we tend to hear words and then we rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion and then in some cases logically state a response. I got thinking back to a conversation sitting discussing existentialism with my granddaughter a few nights back,…