The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings February 18, 2020 Dissipating embers can rekindle a fire   Before the housing encroachment in our neighborhood on most mornings weather permitting I will sit out and spend a few moments meditating in the corner of our back yard. For several years I have used a bit of white sage and sweet grass…

Bird Droppings February 15, 2020 Finally, it is not wet and dreary as I ponder our educational genocide, norming children, and only leaving the best   Amazing in our world of electronics and digital wizardry the simplest of things a battery can cause a chill. My main house thermostat batteries died and our wonderful electronic…

Bird Droppings February 14, 2020 Looking for a window can be a chore if you do not know where to look   I woke up very early today our dog was barking to go out and it was time for my wife to get up and get ready for work. It is hard to sleep…

Bird Droppings February 13, 2020 Do we have a 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…

Bird Droppings February 12, 2020 Getting over the speed bumps   “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Hannah More   Perhaps ahead of her time Ms. More wrote in abundance in the later 1700’s and early 1800’s. She was writing in a time when women should…

  Birddroppings February 11, 2020 I was listening to the stillness of a morning, the sunrise, and or sometimes we need a window and not a mirror.   I was sitting alone this morning as I do often, after running my son to the airport very early, trying to get a few photos of the sunrise.…

Bird Droppings February 9, 2020 An owl calling   Last night I woke for a few minutes as it turns out I forgot to turn on the ceiling fan. While up I stuck my nose out the door perhaps intuition who knows when wandering about the house half asleep. Deep in the pines an owl…

Bird Droppings February 7, 2020 Hearing an owl   “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.”…

Bird Droppings February 6, 2020 Is it saying goodbye or is it hello?   I was thinking about Boy Scouts and a recent memory from last year. It might have been the fact I had never pulled out my Eagle Scout card from 1967 in class before that got me thinking. While mired in controversy…

Bird Droppings February 5, 2020 What if all promises were all kept?   I begin each typical morning waking up, fixing breakfast for my wife and her lunch, talking with my son for a few minutes, fixing my own breakfast and eventually finding my way to my computer. A little later I take the dog…