The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 14, 2018 Filling cracks in leaky pots   Many thousands of years ago Buddha compared people to four kinds of clay vessels. Borrowing these words today as I am thinking to several days watching grandkids and listening away from my normal routine of writing and doing things. A couple of lost days…

Bird Droppings May 9, 2018 Culture is far more than just a word   Culture is those pieces of which we are that others see when we are in their presence. It is how we eat and what we eat. It is how we honor and respect others and or not respect others. Culture is…

Bird Droppings May 7, 2018 Can we discuss curriculum as sacred?   My wife and I are have been talking about how we have so many stories and pieces to our life’s puzzles that may be of interest one day to our children and grand kids.  We drove nearly eleven hours together Saturday and continued…

Bird Droppings May 3, 2018 Every day a new journey begins   “School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.” Ivan Illich,…

Bird Droppings May 2, 2018 Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls   My morning often consist of wandering around taking pictures at sunrise if weather permits. Today was no exception. When I returned to the house I went to my back porch and as I do on many days lit some sage and…

Bird Droppings May 1, 2018 Pondering, remembering and digesting the stories   Forty five years ago I was a student at Mercer University in Macon Georgia. I had moved south only a few months before from Pennsylvania. Macon was new to me and I will admit I was a bit naive at the time. In…

Bird Droppings April 30, 2018 It is not always all in a name   On February 3, 2003, I officially started calling daily emailing and journaling Bird Droppings. I went back in my files and pulled up a few old thoughts and ideas. Along with my new name in 2003 some other bits and pieces…