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  • Teaching and life are simply feeding wolves

    Bird Droppings March 3, 2017 Teaching and life are simply feeding wolves   I have heard and seen this in many forms. “’One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a debate that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It…

    March 3, 2017
  • Puzzle’s always are missing a piece

    Bird Droppings March 2, 2017 Puzzle’s always are missing a piece   “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!” Gail Sheehy, American journalist, author   It has been a most…

    March 2, 2017
  • I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING.

    Bird Droppings March 2, 2017 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…

    March 1, 2017
  • Life, a journey only made difficult if there is no learning invloved

    Bird Droppings February 28, 2017 Life, a journey only made difficult if there is no learning invloved   “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 yesterday and I walked by my fathers…

    February 28, 2017
  • Wandering about while I am waiting

    Bird Droppings February 24, 2017 Wandering about while I am waiting   Sitting listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash acoustic while I write today. I have been saving my pennies to get a new lens hopefully to be ready for spring. There are so many possibilities with various flowers blooming all about and baby ducks…

    February 24, 2017
  • An owl calling

    Bird Droppings February 22, 2017 An owl calling   Last night I woke for a few minutes as it turns out I forgot to turn on the ceiling fan. While up I stuck my nose out the door perhaps intuition who knows when wandering about the house half asleep. Deep in the pines an owl…

    February 22, 2017
  • It is about random acts of kindness

    Bird Droppings February 21, 2017 It is about random acts of kindness   I was a bit later than I planned to get started this morning. I have a long day of writing for school and personally today. I got up this morning and my son’s faithful dog decided I did not need sleep late.…

    February 21, 2017
  • Why am I looking for data in a data-less environment?

    Bird Droppings February 17, 2017 Why am I looking for data in a data-less environment?   I read earlier this morning a dialogue of sorts from a young man who is currently serving in the military. He is trying to decide on his future as he pieces together in his dialogue options and possibilities not…

    February 17, 2017
  • Listening to my doctor

    Bird Droppings February 16, 2017 Listening to my doctor   Somehow for nearly sixteen years I have written and produced Bird Droppings, inserting into Word Press, Facebook and in the past yahoo groups and an email list of people wanting to read Bird Droppings. Even on days I have been away from computers usually within…

    February 16, 2017
  • Hearing an owl

    Bird Droppings February 15, 2017 Hearing an owl   “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.”…

    February 15, 2017
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