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Healing is in all of us
Bird Droppings July 10, 2011 Healing is in all of us “The first fact that distinguishes the human species from all others is that we are born too soon. We arrive incapable of taking care of ourselves for something like fifteen years.” Joseph Campbell, Pathways to bliss, 2004 It is so easy to get up…
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Dodging rain drops
Bird Droppings July 9, 2011 Dodging rain drops Georgia has been considerably drier this summer than the last. The surprise thunderstorms while often severe still have kept most trees green. I have been watering our flowers and of course with fertilizer they are growing so fast many fall over from their height and my herb…
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Filtering into bottles
Morning Bird Droppings July 8, 2011 Filtering into bottles “The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves…
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Curriculum is it sacred?
Bird Droppings July 7, 2011 Curriculum is it as sacred? So often even a miniscule one triggers with me a memory. We have a standing joke at our house about the rabbits that live around our yard. My wife continually mentions the book, Watership Downs, when addressing the bold creatures. Yesterday I was heading to…
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Ethics and politics
Bird Droppings June 30, 2011 Ethics and Politics I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal Constitution this morning. The front page had various articles but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon and required to go on a field trip to Central State Hospital at…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 