The daily meanderings of a teacher

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…

Bird Droppings August 9, 2019 What does it take for that light bulb to go on?   It has been nearly thirteen 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 8, 2019 A spiritual side to teaching borrowing a few words from Parker Palmer   “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it’s never living apart from one’s self. Not about absence of other people – it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are…

Bird Droppings August 7, 2019 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 and my head always feels it. Perhaps why I was sitting thinking back to a teacher work day several years back. Teachers…

Bird Droppings August 6, 2019 Can we find answers outside our windows?   As I read and pondered a world engrossed with money and how we can spend that money. I wonder if perhaps some of the thinking that is bringing so many American Indians back to their more traditional world views has merit. I…

Bird Droppings August 5, 2019 Reconciliation of trust   “It’s the examination of conscience. Unless you examine your conscience, you don’t know what you have to be sorry for and what to confess” Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M., S.T.D., Ten Tips for Better Confessions, The Gift of Reconciliation   I Like starting the year with vocabulary words…

Bird Droppings August 4, 2019 Using Pronouns other then we   It was one of those days yesterday and a word caught my attention as I was listening to a friend talk. The word was them. I never realized the extent of prejudice till a pronoun was used. Such words as they, them, or those…