The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings August 11, 2019 A chilly morning, it is still hard to kiss a frog.   It is was a bit chilly and going to get extremely hot later today. We had a good rain yesterday late in the day its wet here in northeast Georgia. Nighttime temperatures hanging in the low sixty’s and…

Bird Droppings August 10, 2020 What does it take for that light bulb to go on?   It has been nearly fourteen years since my doctorial cohort at Georgia Southern ended and we began the journey on our own. For a couple semesters I was a member of a new cohort at Piedmont College and…

Bird Droppings August 7, 2020 Now my past studies are making sense   My head feels like a sponge. We have hot daytime weather then cooler nights and high humidity then torrential rain off and on and my head always feels it. Perhaps why I was sitting thinking back to a teacher work day several…

Bird Droppings August 4, 2020 What is this desire for freedom?   “Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It is not enough, as communist systems have assumed, merely to provide people with food, shelter and clothing. Human nature needs to breathe the precious…

Bird Droppings July 30, 2020 Are we experiencing genocide of learning?   In the midst of my daily journals entries lately it gets hectic. I am trying to regain strength lost from my leg injury, surgery, and six months of casts, do my writing for my doctorate program, visit with friends, research, reading and discussing…

Bird Droppings July 29, 2020 Can we use the word sacred truthfully?   “Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of freedom   I have been…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2019 Doing what you love is not really work   “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham   For many local teachers next week is getting back to school for teacher workdays. I am sitting here getting ready to ride…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2020 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?   In the course of a few days several storms passed through quickly each a very definitive front literally flying by and all ending with rainbows, or so I have been told. On one occasion a twin rainbow.…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2020 Pondering and thinking wiping away a tear or two   I was up incredibly early today wishing I could have been doing my laps in the pool, as a great horned owl was calling in the woods. It seems it was more than one as around me several were calling…

Bird Droppings July 20, 2020 It takes more than one strand to make a rope, in life and in education.   “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.” Faith Baldwin   Each day as I talk…