The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 23, 2018 Wondering about the song lyrics of an old friend   I first started listening to Neil Young’s music in 1967 or so possibly even earlier if you count Buffalo Springfield, a short lived band and of course 1968 with Crosby Stills, Nash and Young at Woodstock and Deja vu, their…

Bird Droppings April 20, 2018 Going to school again for the first time   So often as I start my writings each morning there has been an experience recently to build upon. It is utilizing these previous experiences that provide windows and doors into future experiences. I was driving through our town and a shop…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2018 Is a circle a confined space or infinite undertaking?   My own philosophical meandering focuses on life as a circle. My thinking today revolves around that thought. Does a circle have a beginning and or an end? As learning begins often with a question so today a start and a…

Bird Droppings April 17, 2018 A man before his time   “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.” Arthur Schopenhauer   Many great thinkers have found their motivation and beginnings in Schopenhauer. Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the first westerners to read and understand traditional Eastern thought. He was…

Bird Droppings April 16, 2018 Going up a mountain takes effort   I am looking forward to my next trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia. It is the site of the Foxfire Museum property and was the site of Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest son took…

Bird Droppings April 13, 2018 Watching a hawk fly by   Sitting writing on Friday the thirteenth waiting on a sunrise. I was able to attend only a few track meets over the past few years due in part to health issues and as always I did take a few photos as I tend to…

Bird Droppings April 12, 2018 Can we find truth in an untruthful world?   I went back to a book for the third or fourth time, a book titled, Every day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous women, by the late Wilma Mankiller. Wilma Mankiller was the past Chief of The Cherokee Nation…

Bird Droppings April 19, 2017 “peaceful evolution versus violent revolution”   I have begun reading extensively the past few weeks putting together thoughts for my dissertation at Georgia Southern University and for my own teaching. One of those that passed through my hands these past few days and actually a few minutes ago on my…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2018 Are we experiencing the genocide of learning?   In the midst of my daily journals entries lately it gets hectic I am trying to do research and write for my dissertation I left hanging in 2010. I have been running back and forth to my various doctors the past three…