The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 14, 2020 Pondering early in the morning in my search for wisdom   I started my day as I routinely do except no breakfast for me. I fixed my wife her lunch. I walk out checking the outside ambient temperature and air, cleaned up the kitchen from dinner and proceeded to get…

Bird Droppings May 12, 2020 Culture is far more than just a word     “Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and granting a space of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regardful of the rule that thought comes before speech. In the midst of sorrow, sickness, death or…

Bird Droppings May 11, 2020 Filling cracks in leaky pots Many thousands of years ago Buddha compared people to four kinds of clay vessels. Borrowing these words today as I am thinking to several days lost with the current pandemic. I have been disrupted from my normal routine of teaching, writing and doing things around…

Bird Droppings May 8, 2020 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?   “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln   Perhaps in the scheme of things there are people who are inherently grouchy and or by Lincoln’s view they simply…

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…