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I wonder if you can get moon burn. Trying to get pictures of moonflowers.
Bird Droppings October 24, 2025I wonder if you can get moon burn. Trying to get pictures of moonflowers. I was up early in the morning, getting grandkiddos ready for school and fixing breakfast for a few extra folks. I remembered I had several seed pods left on my datura plants, jimson weed, and moonflower. I…
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Listening to a five-note flute and pondering at a Honda dealer, and always synchronicity.
Bird Droppings October 22, 2025Listening to a five-note flute and pondering at a Honda dealer, and always synchronicity. I arise relatively early, even on my days off from my part-time teaching, and try to do some serious writing. Each morning, I go chasing sunrises. I am up at my corner store for conversation and to…
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Taking and making the most of each moment and learning about moleskin: I think we need to find moleskin in education, along with switchbacks.
Bird Droppings October 20, 2025 Taking and making the most of each moment and learning about moleskin: I think we need to find moleskin in education, along with switchbacks. In years past, before my son got married and took his dog Timber with him, I sometimes missed waking up to him barking because he needed…
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Should we be kissing frogs on a chilly, wet morning granted it could be a poison arrow dart frog and regardless it is still hard.
Bird Droppings October 18, 2025Should we be kissing frogs on a chilly, wet morning granted it could be a poison arrow dart frog and regardless it is still hard. It was on the chilly side and wet here in northeast Georgia, with nighttime temperatures hanging in the low sixties. However, a rumor of a nice…
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Caring is a very precious commodity in life, and a few good thoughts from Maxine Greene and Nel Noddings.
Bird Droppings October 15, 2025 Caring is a very precious commodity in life, and a few good thoughts from Maxine Greene and Nel Noddings. As I was pondering in the early hours today, before getting my day started, several articles caught my attention. Religion and education are two of my favorites. The first was how…
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For some, creating and writing in a digital world is difficult.
Bird Droppings October 13, 2025For some, creating and writing in a digital world is difficult. “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 Brave New World was…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 