The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings August 23, 2019 Could there be such a thing as Essential Education?   It has been almost seven years since I was discussing various educational philosophies and pedagogies with my son. One happened to be essential education which per his text is only a slight step from perennial education that is reading, writing…

Bird Droppings August 21, 2019 The synchronicity saga and or saga of synchronicity   I write often of coincidence it may seem boring to some. To me it is a never-ending saga of special moments one after the other. During a college graduate class, we discussed science and measuring of data. Intuition and coincidence, it…

Bird Droppings August 20, 2019 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert?   It has been a few days since I could walk about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road and take pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I once spent several…

Bird Droppings August 19, 2019 Checking the toes for mittens   It has been some time since one of my granddaughters came over to me to show off her new hat and mittens. It was quite a sight clad in a t-shirt, diaper, mittens and ski cap that looked like a penguin she was showing…

Bird Droppings August 16, 2019 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 were…

Bird Droppings August 15, 2019 Looking for reasons   “Come; let us put our minds together to see what kind of life we can create for our children.” Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux   Nearly eighteen years has passed since I did a research paper on causes of various emotional issues with children. When I first started…

Bird Droppings August 14, 2019 Life is making a quilt   It was over eleven years ago my wife walked in and told me that my mother said this was to be a happy time, a joyous occasion, as we celebrated my father’s life. She said I think we are even having a snow cone…

Bird Droppings August 13, 2019 Watching a hawk fly by   I used to attend and photograph a few track meets over the years. When I would go  as always I took a few photos as I tend to do. I recall about eight years ago when I was not able to get to the…

Bird Droppings August 12, 2019 How capable do we need to be?   What a contrast to only a few weeks ago as the sun was shining and the moon is waning as I went out in the wee hours with a crystal-clear sky. There was a gentle wind blowing, wind chimes ringing peacefully and…

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