The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 7, 2020 How do you feed the wolves? I walked outside very early this morning to a sky filled with clouds leaving and a brisk wind. Crickets were almost silent, chirping slowly in the unusually cool weather. My morning started long before sunrise today, and the sounds as I went on our…

Bird Droppings October 6, 2020 An epiphany of sorts on a chilly October morning   I spent the better part of yesterday avoiding any direction, so intent on the moment I was missing cues to the past and future. It was last year that our neighborhood changed. On top of everything, I was severely injured, so…

Bird Droppings October 2, 2020 Teach to where the learning will be, not to where it is I got a text from my middle son that a package was coming from my granddaughter and fragile. My box arrived today, and I thought I should open while videotaping. I carefully opened as per instructions from my…

Bird Droppings October 1, 2020 Why are we deliberately wrong? I stopped playing the lottery nearly three years ago. However, I will admit that I was pondering retiring on a previous Saturday night with a Powerball jackpot of only about one hundred fifty million dollars if I bought a ticket and won. I think I…

Bird Droppings September 30, 2020 Is the seat of the soul in the heart or mind? I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Peoples. I was three or four years old when I first remember my father’s Little Strong Arm…

September 29, 2020 Do we need a bit more soul? “Soul is different from spirit; the deep soul is the way we live every day, our longings and our fears.” Thomas Moore  It has been nearly thirty years since I first read The Care of the Soul, by Thomas Moore. I picked up a copy…

Bird Droppings September 28, 2020 Why not continue the Journey? “So, I’d much rather get across the concept of freedom. It is what’s important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed,…

Bird Droppings September 27, 2020 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert? Yesterday morning I was walking about our yard and along the nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom sage plant…

Bird Droppings September 27, 2020 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert? Yesterday morning I was walking about our yard and along the nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom sage plant…

Bird Droppings September 25, 2020Being human “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa Such a simple opportunity for us as humans and we have been given that with recent events be it floods, earthquakes, mining disasters, poverty, and so many more events worldwide that impact feeding people. We live…