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My friend Trooper, I am pondering, remembering, and digesting the stories.
Bird Droppings April 7, 2025My friend Trooper, I am pondering, remembering, and digesting the stories. Fifty-two years ago, I was a student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, having moved south only a few months prior from Pennsylvania. Macon was new to me, and I must admit I was somewhat naive at the time. In…
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Translating and communicating also involve perception
Bird droppings April 3, 2025Translating and communicating also involve perception “Scientific management is always on guard against people who don’t fit securely into boxes, whether because of too much competency, too much creativity, too much popularity, or what have you. Although often hired, it is with the understanding they must be kept on a short…
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Pondering early in the morning, in my search for wisdom, while looking for a sunrise on a cloudy day
Bird Droppings April 2, 2025Pondering early in the morning, in my search for wisdom, while looking for a sunrise on a cloudy day I started my day by having some green tea and heading out to look for a sunrise. The sky was beautiful in a strange sort of way. Using overexposure, I got several…
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Eating some leftover green beans, ham, and potatoes and thinking about the circle of life
Bird Droppings March 31 – April 1, 2025 Eating some leftover green beans, ham, and potatoes and thinking about the circle of life I made a huge crock pot of green beans, ham, and potatoes last evening and had plenty of leftovers. One of my favorite childhood memories is of meals with the family. I’m…
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Bird Droppings March 28, 2025 Making a difference each day “Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century popularized the term “dialogue” in his writing. As I read about Freire…
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Can we find Truth in an untruthful world?
Bird Droppings March 27, 2025Can we find Truth in an untruthful world? For the third or fourth time, I reread “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women” by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a Native American Activist, author, lecturer, and a several-time…
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I’m not too fond of shopping, but I like Kroger
Bird Droppings March 26, 2025I’m not too fond of shopping, but I like Kroger About eleven years ago, I spent nearly a week using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer until I got the fan fixed. Granted, I have been on my third computer since then. It was interesting. Two similar thoughts occurred…
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Ethics and Politics: I think they are antonyms
Bird Droppings March 25, 2025Ethics and Politics: I think they are antonyms Many things are happening in our world that are often the result of a politician’s actions, whether we voted for them or not. Industry is being remade, wars are being fought, jobs are appearing and disappearing, and health care reform is possibly off…
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I am pondering ABNANBNANBNANBNANBNANBC or antecedent behavior, new antecedent, new behavior, etc.
Bird Droppings March 24, 2025I am pondering ABNANBNANBNANBNANBNANBC or antecedent behavior, new antecedent, new behavior, etc. Last night, I reviewed some notes from one of my numerous posts on various blog sites and comments from my graduate school. I had been reading from a paper on a program developed in the mid-1980s in California. The…
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Bird Droppings March 22, 2025Wind in the trees Over the past weeks, several storms have come through the area. I Had a tree guy come out and take down some trees that were leaning or broken off. Just before I went to bed last night, according to the weather forecast, we were expected to get…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 