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I am pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfall.
Bird Droppings April 10, 2025I am pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfall. It has been almost fifteen years since I stayed 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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Should we question our questions many times?
Bird Droppings April9, 2025Should we question our questions many times? Yesterday, I was sitting in my computer area after a week or two of articles and innuendos about who and why Georgia students in high school and middle schools across the state do so poorly on certain mandatory tests. These are Georgia’s version of course-end…
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Occasionally, we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke, perhaps before it is too late
Bird Droppings April 8, 2025Occasionally, we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke, perhaps before it is too late Thinking back to my biology teaching days, high school students always ask questions about religion as we get into evolution. Occasionally, I get someone who wants to prove a point. A young lady…
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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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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…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 