The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings February 13, 2014 Try not to be a waste of time and read some Emerson “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…

Bird Droppings February 11, 2014 Is there room for politics when people are hurting? Earlier in the morning as I went out after reading a friends note on acclimating to the cold I was standing outside pondering the day ahead in my shorts and t-shirt and it hit me I was freezing my butt off,…

Bird Droppings February 11, 2014 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 10, 2014 Listening to a five note flute “The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the…

Bird Droppings February 9, 2014 I was listening to the stillness of a morning with no 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…

Bird Droppings February 7, 2014 I am sitting quietly trying to understand the word courage I had been outside running to the store in the wee hours of the morning for some supplies and at 29 degrees it is a cold morning in Georgia one of cooler mornings recently. Stars were scattering as I went…

Bird Droppings February 6, 2014 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 we…

Bird Droppings February 5, 2014 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 4, 2014 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 3, 2014 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…