The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 25, 2015 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln Perhaps in the scheme of things there are people who are inherently grouchy and or by Lincoln’s view they simply want to…

Bird Droppings May 24, 2015 To die a happy death: I have been teaching high school now for nearly fifteen years and after summer break another year ahead. I am starting my writing day a bit later than normal since we had the grandbabies over yesterday and I was plum tuckered out last night. Over…

Bird Droppings May 22, 2015 It will be an interesting day I was up earlier than normal and went back to bed after sitting out for a few minutes around midnight or so. It was peaceful sitting in the coolness of an almost summer evening. I thought earlier we were going to have a storm.…

Bird Droppings May 21, 2015 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 with…

Bird Droppings May 20, 2015 Can we be about healing? “People cannot know how sacred power, or medicine truly works, bit 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 – either…

Bird Droppings May 19, 2015 Is curriculum sacred? My wife and I are talking about taking a couple of day’s hiatus to explore the North Georgia Mountains with no schedule and little baggage. We will throw a few t-shirts and shorts in a bag and take off. We actually have more computers and camera gear…

Bird Droppings May 18, 2015 What is normal and can we define it quantitatively or qualitatively? “Normality in fact has nothing to do with statistics. It refers to a norm, a model of perfection, an example to be followed. It indicates what we should be. Normality is therefore something to strive for, something at which…

Bird droppings May 17, 2015 Do we learn from a ripple or a wave? Today I will be digging and planting, transplanting and repotting various flowers and herbs in our yard and also weeding eating the jungle now that we have had so much rain just about every day up till this past week and…

Bird Droppings May 15, 2015 Finding our reflection on a pond or window I boxed up a couple of boxes of “junk” from my class room the other day. Each piece at one time or another had been a teachable moment. Each was an item and or items for that had been collected and or…

Bird Droppings May 14, 2015 Life is making a quilt It was nearly eight years ago my wife walked in and told me that my mother said this day was to be a happy time a joyous occasion as we celebrated my father’s life after he had passed. She said I think we are even…