The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 11, 2017 Taking small steps   “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 job finished or to get to the top…

Bird Droppings October 6, 2017 “Teach to where the learning will be not to where it is”   It seems lately the pressure of old age has been weighing on my mind. Today is the first day in some time I felt pretty good it could be it’s a teacher’s work day and my grandkids…

Bird Droppings October 4, 2017 Educators, why are we deliberately wrong?   I stopped playing the lottery many months back but I will admit that on a previous Saturday night with a Powerball jackpot of only about one hundred fifty million dollars I was pondering retiring if I bought a ticket and won. I think…

Bird Droppings October 3, 2017 Is the seat of the soul in the heart or mind?   I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Peoples. I was three or four years old when I first remember my father’s stories of…

Bird Droppings September 30, 2017 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert?   I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom…

Bird Droppings September 29, 2017 Who else would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark?   “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing…

Bird Droppings September 28, 2016 Why not continue the Journey? “So I’d much rather get across the concept of freedom. It’s what’s important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed, and…