The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 21, 2013 Can we imagine? Some days I wonder if adults I know have ever imagined even considered imagination. For example have you ever lain on your back watching clouds trying to determine if this one is a dragon or a whale? I was driving home from Georgia Tech with my son…

Bird Droppings May 20, 2013 Would it not be a great addition to reality TV, The next great teacher? I was sitting mesmerized by the night sounds when the kitchen door opened and my son poked his head out wondering what I was doing. I was not in the mood for TV and the sounds…

Bird Droppings May 19, 2013 Life is about practice On a wet cloudy and stormy Sunday morning in Georgia with a high school graduation only a few hours previous I am thinking ahead. I often wonder at how to tell graduating seniors to ponder and think about the future. How do you build upon what…

Bird Droppings May 17, 2013 It seems to be a new morning? Last night I had my son drive up to the corner store to get a few things. When he I had been waiting outside and the sounds of the evening were stilled from the chill all the humming, whistling, chirping and barking that…

Bird Droppings May 16, 2013 Reading a friend’s book a fifth time I was so tired when I laid down last night after driving around doing errands, working in the yard, working in my gardens, and attempting to get into my reading and writing. My youngest son is waiting to hear on a nursing program…

Bird Droppings May 15, 2013 Can we seek balance while walking on a see saw? “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau I walked in my room at school yesterday and missed my stuffed eland on the wall; the largest African antelope was removed when I moved to a…

Bird Droppings May 14, 2013 How hard it is to find the trail in the search for knowledge? “All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly…. We have the right hand…

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…

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…