The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 22, 2013 Should we look within to who we really are? Amazing what a day or two out of routine will do. I actually did not get on my computer and do anything of a writing sort yesterday knowing with the coming week off I would be writing in significant quantity. So…

Bird Droppings October 21, 2013 How do we find democracy? Yesterday I was still recovering from a medical procedure from Wednesday and somehow drove up to Piedmont College for a class and back and dozed off for three hours afterwards. Today we are rushing around with our heads cut off driving to get into car…

Bird Droppings October 20, 2013 How do we find democracy? Yesterday I was still recovering from a medical procedure from Wednesday and somehow drove up to Piedmont College for a class and back and dozed off for three hours afterwards. Today we are rushing around with our heads cut off driving to get into car…

Bird Droppings October 18, 2013 Thinking ahead Occasionally I will have a crazy thought although my students will say occasionally I have a normal thought and that would be more like it. They are insinuating most of my thoughts are crazy. My youngest son just had his anniversary this past week and so many memories.…

Bird Droppings October 17, 2013 Why would some rather send a photo than write? “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 we were reading was…

Bird Droppings October 16, 2013 Why not continue the Journey? “So I’d much rather get across the concept of freedom. It’s what’s important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed, and…

Bird Droppings October 15, 2015 It is not about random acts of kindness? I was a bit under the weather when I got up this morning and my faithful dog decided I did not need sleep as well. She was quick to run outside and then wanted right back in the house. It was close…

Bird Droppings October 14, 2013 Taking small steps “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How many times are we told “take your time”? So often in life we are anxious to get the job finished or to get to the top today. We…

Bird Droppings October 13, 2013 It takes more than one strand to make a rope “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.” Faith Baldwin Each day as I talk to my students I try and set…

Bird Droppings October 11, 2013 Words not spoken are some of the most profound wisdom I am sitting at least thinking about writing papers for grad school and words is what is on my mind right now. I just commented on a Facebook post about learning languages and how I know enough in several languages…