The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings March 29, 2021All in a name On February 3, 2003 I officially started titling my daily emailing and blogging, Bird Droppings. I went back in my files and pulled up a few old thoughts and ideas. As I was reading the local paper today a street poll was included asking locals about gas…

Bird Droppings March 27, 2021Not all learning difficulties can be tested for It has been a few days since my last post. I have been extremely occupied. Last week several doctor appointments, ultrasounds, blood work, and more doctors made it a crazy week. It seems my heart rate or lack thereof has got the best…

Bird Droppings March 26, 2021 To die a happy death: My mother’s spirit passed on two years ago. She went to sleep and moved on. As I pondered my thoughts for today, I am always thinking about education. I have been taught public high school now for nearly twenty years and after the coming summer…

Bird Droppings March 25, 2021 What is it we see looking into a child’s eyes? I woke up at my normal time from a dream thinking I was back twenty or so years getting up and getting the kids all sent off to school and it was pretty quiet around the house. After walking to…

Bird Droppings March 24, 2021An eclectic morning “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” Mahatma Gandhi It has been quite a few years since I watched an episode of Star Trek. It may have been one of the movies where Spock interfered with Star…

Bird Droppings March 23, 2021 It is only a dropped feather? Dr. Michael Garrett a Cherokee Indian from North Carolina intertwined his native thoughts in his lessons as he taught college. He wrote extensively on the philosophical and spiritual aspects of native thought. “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors,…

Bird Droppings March 21, 2021Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets? Morning is a special time for me always a new beginning. That might be far too easy of a way to say what I am trying to say. Today I went out a bit early from the house to take out the…

Bird Droppings March 19, 2021Children Teach what they Live It is a beautiful spring day outside and quiet after a crazy couple day of severe weather. It seems the solitude of the country has changed rapidly the past year. A developer bought our sub-division and has put up thirty more houses. People are moving into…

Bird Droppings March 18, 2021Is it passion or just obsession? “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions, but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr. Eric Berne, The games people play.…

Bird Droppings March 17, 2021Setting priorities on a wet chilly almost spring morning “Keep in mind that you are always saying ‘no’ to something. If it isn’t to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep…