The daily meanderings of a teacher

A journal from a teacher

Is innocence more than a definition?

Bird Droppings May 13, 2013 Is innocence more than a definition? I start my mornings standing in the dark listening before I drive to school. Listening wondering pondering I might say. When I sit down and begin to write I will many times pick up my ear phones and put on something I enjoy Carlos…

May 13, 2013
Children learn what they live do they not?

Bird Droppings May 12, 2013 Children learn what they live do they not? It is such a beautiful morning and quiet outside, I had the opportunity to sit and meditate for nearly an hour just after the rising sun pushed across the wheat fields behind our house. I took pictures through a large portion of…

May 12, 2013
Searching for, looking at and finally placing those pieces into the puzzle

Bird Droppings May 10, 2013 Searching for, looking at and finally placing those pieces into the puzzle “The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ”social worker” -judge.” Dr. Michael Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas It has been…

May 10, 2013
It is said dreams do not stand alone

Bird Droppings May 8, 2013 It is said dreams do not stand alone “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach It has been so many years since I first experienced the whimsical book Jonathan Livingston Seagull,…

May 9, 2013
Looking for the passion in life or is it just obsession?

Bird Droppings May 7, 2013 Looking for the passion in life or is it just obsession? “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions; but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr.…

May 8, 2013
Looking for and clearing a pathway

Bird Droppings May 7, 2013 Looking for and clearing a pathway “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” Elwyn Brooks White Often I reflect on the journey of life and the many directions I…

May 7, 2013
Always try and see through new eyes wide open

Bird Droppings May 5, 2013 Always try and see through new eyes wide open “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton It has been nearly seven years since we last moved and seems we might stay here a while. I recall seven or…

May 6, 2013
A mother is………a poem

Bird Droppings May 5, 2013 A mother is………a poem I do not recall my birth so it is difficult to say anything actually significant other than from my own mothers and fathers perception. Somewhere I have a photo of my father at the doorway looking in while my mother is holding me. It seems back…

May 5, 2013
Living a moment at a time

Bird Droppings May 3, 2013 Living a moment at a time On Wednesday evening I walked out into my yard with my faithful dog and from the field behind us a red tailed hawk soared around once and landed in a large dead black walnut tree next to us. It was only seventy five feet…

May 3, 2013
Teach by doing and living

Bird Droppings May 2, 2013 Teach by doing and living I have been reading, printing out articles and writing quite extensively over the past few days. Actually for at least a few days more like we are into only eleven left now till summer break and serious writing time. Sadly my brain feels like mush…

May 2, 2013