The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 1, 2019 Is the seat of the soul in the heart or mind?   I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Peoples. I was three or four years old when I first remember my father’s stories of…

Bird Droppings September 30, 2019 Searching for integrity midst the fogginess of reality   “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do…

Bird Droppings September 29, 2019 What’s it take for that light bulb to go on?   It has been nearly twelve years since my doctorial cohort ended and we began the journey on our own. Most of us will have had a few classes or two together here and there and are into and are…

Bird Droppings September 26, 2019 Is wisdom contagious?   I was reading in a friend’s blog about the Harry Potter series. She was addressing religious beliefs in her blog and how so many adhere verbatim to holy texts. As I read her blog which is rather good the ending was rather interesting.   “That doesn’t…

September 24, 2019 Finishing up about soul   “In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tarawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast and that from them, and from the stars and…

Bird Droppings September 23, 2019 Now my studies are making sense My head feels like a sponge from the change in air pressure during the night. It could be the radical differences between cool weather at night and extremely unseasonably hot days. I was sitting thinking back to a day we were not paid as…

Bird Droppings September 22, 2019 Thinking about my brother Scrolling through memories a photo of my brother John popped up. My nephew posted several years back. Years ago my mother would follow on Facebook and we all posted photos and such where she could see them. One day she stopped checking her laptop and looking.…

Bird Droppings September 20, 2019 Solitude is within one’s soul and heart   “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear-filled eyes, one affirmation endures… one truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where…

Bird Droppings September 19, 2019 What about routines?   I was scooting about Kroger yesterday after work. My oldest son dropped me off and I got one of those electric carts to race around the store. No sooner did I get started and the cart ran out of power. Numerous folks asked to help and…

Bird Droppings September 18, 2019 Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory   The anniversary of a day that will be a scar on our nation’s history has past most will say September 11, 2001. However, on September 15, 1963 an explosion tore through the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham,…