The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings March 1, 2018 I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING.   “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” Carl…

Bird Droppings February 28, 2018 A morning meandering while the moon is glowing Later today I will be tutoring a student trying to get caught up and return to public school. My first thing this morning was reading through several old emails from my doctorate and graduate cohort friends as some are defending their dissertations…

Bird Droppings February 27, 2018 Wet and dreary as I ponder educational genocide and or NCLB, norming children, only leaves the best   I was huddled in my blanket as I went outside to sit and think a bit earlier granted I was barefooted. The air was still except for some dripping still from yesterday’s…

Bird Droppings February 23, 2018 Getting over the speed bumps “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Hannah More Perhaps ahead of her time Ms. More wrote in abundance in the later 1700’s and early 1800’s. She was writing in a time when women should have been…

Bird Droppings February 22, 2018 I was listening to the stillness of a morning, the sunrise, and or sometimes we need a window and not a mirror.     I was sitting alone this morning as I do often, trying to get a few photos of the sunrise. Today it was mostly cloud cover and…

Bird Droppings February 20, 2018 Life, a journey only made difficult if there is no learning involved   “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” Henry Van Dyke   I was visiting with my mother a few days back and I walked…