The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 9, 2018 Just a morning observation   “I do not write from mythology when I reflect upon Native American spirituality in this book. In my own opinion, mythology leads to superstition; and superstition has proved fatally destruction to many millions down through time. It is ironic, then that Dominant Society accuses Native…

Bird Droppings July 7, 2018 Foxfire is a name for a fungus glowing in the dark, Until you wander up Black Rock Mountain   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley   In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a…

Bird Droppings July 4, 2018 Are we missing Creativity?   This was another quiet morning as I wandered out and about already birds hiding from view are calling. As for the crickets and frogs as always a beautiful chorus for the morning awakening. Yesterday later in the day several tree frogs visited our back porch…

Bird Droppings July 3, 2018 the ability to surmount those learning difficulties   We celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I have watched the materialism of our culture run rampant. I am equally as involved having grandkids over, planning fireworks, swimming and picnic etc. Perhaps I should not have read Russell Means thoughts…

Bird Droppings July 2, 2018 Direction is needed when speaking of velocity   Over the past week or so I worked on several paper ideas, sat on my sofa watching netflix,  dabbled in my yard briefly around rain drops, drove up to the mountains for a day with my wife and swam with my grand…

Bird Droppings July 1, 2018 In pursuit of excellence in learning   I am working on my paper for graduate school and woke up very early in the morning with several ideas running through my head. I stepped outside briefly and I heard the crickets and tree frogs as the sounds of early morning surrounded…

Bird Droppings June 30, 2018 Teaching can be successful   So as I do on many mornings when I get the time I walked out to a quiet corner of my back yard except today it is to move my spot. Developers have purchased the bank owned land in this development and are planning on…

Bird Droppings June 28, 2018 Seeking a destination “Life is about the journey not the destination; we don’t know what tomorrow brings” Steven Tyler, AEROSMITH Every once in a while I get totally amazed, and as I was driving from point A to point B not too many days ago a song was playing in…

Bird Droppings June 27, 2018 Should we be trying to fill a liter bottle?   Every year it appears in education we have a new trend, basically analogous to trying to pour five gallons of material into a liter bottle using a funnel. As you try obliviously a large portion of material spills out and…