The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 7, 2020 Can we die a happy death?   Perhaps it was the passing of my mother that pulled me to this idea. I sometimes wonder in the mornings why I am writing about a specific topic although often it is something simply on my mind. I have been teaching high school…

Bird Droppings May 6, 2020 We 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…

Bird Droppings May 5, 2020 Being 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…

Bird Droppings May 4, 2020 Occasionally we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke   High school students always ask questions about religion. As we get into evolution especially in biology. Occasionally I get someone who wants to prove a point. A young lady brought in her father’s sermon on creation and…

Bird Droppings May 1, 2020 Always on my mind and in my heart   I avoided writing earlier today as so many memories and thoughts consumed me. I went to physical therapy and had my neck stretched in traction and while laying there for twelve minutes had a physician phone chat, telemedicine about my neck…

Bird Droppings April 29, 2020 It is not always all in a name On February 3, 2003, I officially started calling daily emailing and journaling Bird Droppings. I went back in my files and pulled up a few old thoughts and ideas. Along with my new name in 2003 some other bits and pieces as…

Bird Droppings April 28, 2020 A rock flower and song   A journey begins with a step and apathy begins with turning your back and saying I don’t care. Before we left school for the virus I had my last IEP of the year. I recall my laptop was acting weirder than normal and all…

Bird Droppings April 27, 2020 Driving up a mountain takes considerable effort   I am looking forward to another trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire Museum property. In the past, the site was used as a focus of Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching.…

Bird Droppings April 26, 2020 Using Pronouns   It was one of those days yesterday and a word caught my attention as I was listening to a friend talk. The word was them. I never realized the extent of prejudice till a pronoun was used. Such words as they, them, or those people never were…

Bird Droppings April 23, 2020 Are you a Weginahsa?   “The work of a teacher – exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same – is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely…