The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 17, 2018 What do we miss?   All Along the Watchtower   There must be some way out of here, Said the joker to the thief, There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief. Businessmen, they drink my wine, Plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line Know what…

Bird Droppings July 15, 2018 Did you know trees can talk?   “Did you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk if you listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to other voices…

Bird Droppings July 15, 2018 One puzzle piece at a time, a secret formula for good teaching.   “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   How many times are we told “take your time”? So often in life we are anxious to get the…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2018 Like the spider web all of life is connected and intertwined   As I thought about the Sydney J. Harris passage below I recall a walk one morning out to a quiet spot where I meditate and something hit me. As I faced east towards the rising sun the gossamer…

Bird Droppings July 10, 2018 Hearing and listening are critical   “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Epictetus   A simple analogy yet we far too often do not understand that statement and perhaps it is because we have more jaw muscle than…

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…