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Why should I do more?
Bird Droppings May 13, 2016 Why should I do more? “Choices are sacred to life’s journey. They lie along the path that all of us must follow for ourselves. An important Cherokee lesson is that if you involve yourself in any decision, you also experience the consequences of that decision.” Dr. J.T. Garrett, Meditations…
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Can we be about healing?
Bird Droppings May 9, 2017 Can we be about healing? “People cannot know how sacred power, or medicine truly works, but almost every Native American knows something of its ways. Often seen as a mysterious force that is fluid, transmissible and important malleable, sacred power can be manipulated by those who possess it –…
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Should we be pondering the idea of faith?
Bird Droppings May 4, 2017 Should we be pondering the idea of faith? “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered, or the ultimate direction of the process. But now the speed of change is accelerating logarithmically. It is apparent that…
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Is not every day a new journey begun?
Bird Droppings May 2, 2017 Is not every day a new journey begun? “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.”…
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Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls
Bird Droppings May 1, 2017 Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls It has been five years since I was staying at the Sylvan Mills Bed and Breakfast in a room literally over a waterfall. I went up to North Georgia to recharge perhaps another word might be to rekindle my passion for…
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Are you a Weginahsa?
Bird Droppings April 28, 2017 Are you a Weginahsa? “The work of a teacher – exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same – is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely…
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Is a circle a confined space or infinite undertaking?
Bird Droppings April 27, 2017 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…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 