The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings September 24, 2020 Can we listen through our heart? It has been several years since I found on my many excursions to Barnes and Nobles a small book that I would like to share some passages from. I found many of the thoughts and passages to be of significance and for me sharing…

September 23, 2020Answers are on the opposite end of questions “In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tarawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast and that from them, and from the…

Bird Droppings September 22, 2020Seeing all is connected and intertwined As I thought about the Sydney J. Harris passage below and walked out to my car I thought of my quiet spot on my back porch where I meditate, and something hit me. I generally sit facing east towards the rising sun, daily the gossamer…

Bird Droppings September 21, 2020The confines or infinity of a circle As I am sitting here this afternoon wondering does a circle have a beginning and or an end? As learning begins often with a question so today a start and a beginning to my writing and thinking with a question. Many of the philosophies…

Bird Droppings September 20, 2020 Why would anyone be unworthy of concern?   “I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and believe in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the…

Bird Droppings September 18, 2020Being where you need to be “A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.” Dr. Sam Keenre Many the day and time I have…

Bird Droppings September 16, 2020 Why did they call him a founding father? “Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” Alexander Hamilton As I looked through the news this morning many of the situations go…

Bird Droppings September 15, 2020Solitude 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 September 14, 2020Just an observation I am that I am. I read that somewhere many years ago a simple definition of one’s self. As I look at its simplicity are we not all who we are? I grew up in a middle-class family first in Pennsylvania and now Georgia. In the old days…

Bird Droppings September 10, 2020 What’s it take, for that light bulb to go on? It has been nearly fourteen years since my doctorial cohort ended and we began the journey on our own. Most of us will have had a few classes or two together here and there and are into and are beginning…