The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 5, 2020 Green Bay Wisconsin is cold. Did Lombardi ever wear gloves?   “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” Vince Lombardi   It has been a few days since I used a Lombardi quote. Years back I can recall my father borrowing verbiage from the…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2020 POTENTIAL   “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and magically merged into a lifelong friendship. And…

Bird Droppings April 3, 2020 Hunting for the right words   “The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” Robert M. Pirsig, American author   Whether it is trying to offer a few words of condolence to friends whose loved one has passed away or trying to…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2020 A spiritual side to teaching   “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it’s never living apart from one’s self. Not about the absence of other people – it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others.” Parker Palmer   Dr.…

Bird Droppings April 1, 2020 Getting ready   “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and it’s a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” Russell Means   I walked early this morning…

Bird Droppings March 30, 2020 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 29, 2020 An 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 actually it may have been one of the movies where…

Bird Droppings March 27, 2020 It is only a dropped feather?   Dr. Michael Garrett (1996), a Cherokee Indian from North Carolina, intertwined his native thoughts in his lessons as he taught college:   If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more…

Birddroppings March 26, 2020 Engaging curriculum through Story Telling   Sitting at my computer getting my thoughts together to reach out to my students and think about being a student with a dissertation defense ahead. So today a piece of my thoughts as I sit reviewing notes and setting up various programs to engage students…

Bird Droppings March 25, 2020 Have 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…