The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings February 12, 2015 Teaching is a journey not copy and paste or bubble. It has been several days well over a week since I had a chance to go out early and ponder as I say. It has been many days since I took a photograph with my good camera since I left…

Bird Droppings February 11, 2015 Try not to waste of time “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the most precious things we have is time. As our lives go by we tend to waste more and more of it. Sitting here…

Bird Droppings February 10, 2015 Why should our children be going to school? After reading Joel Spring’s book, Political Agendas for Education, one might wonder why we even have schools. Spring’s implies they are simply to create and mold youth into whatever it is those in power deem feasible. His idea is that it is…

Bird Droppings February 9, 2015 Listening to a five note flute Each morning of school I stop by our local Quick Trip and stock up. Water bottles, protein bar, a banana, and whatever else I need to make it through the day. Today was no different till a young man approached me and stuck out…

Bird Droppings February 8, 2015 I was listening to the stillness of a morning, the sunrise, and or sometimes we need a window and not a mirror. I was sitting alone this morning as I do on weekend mornings trying to get a few photos of the sunrise. The ambient temperature is still a bit…

Bird Droppings February 6, 2015 I am sitting quietly trying to understand the word courage Recently two movies came out in theatres across the country. One is about a sniper in Iraq and one about a man who was leading the struggle searching for freedom and equality for all mankind. Both men were killed violently…

Bird Droppings February 5, 2015 The interconnectivity of all that is – a puzzle falling in place “Every footstep is the journey. Every sight, every sound, every touch and taste and smell with which we are blessed is the journey. All of the colors before us are the journey, and we are the journey. May…

Bird Droppings February 4, 2015 Writing for some seems so difficult in a digital world “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was Brave New…

Bird Droppings February 3, 2015 Solitude is within ones soul and heart “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear filled eyes, one affirmation endures..one truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where there…

Bird Droppings February 2, 2015 Why would anyone be a teacher? I was talking with students several days ago about going into teaching and one of the students actually wanted to be a teacher. Along that line the Georgia Legislator had discussed previously if only briefly increasing teacher pay by four percent after numerous years…