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The infinity or confines of a circle

Bird Droppings April 14, 2011 The confines or infinity of a circle Does a circle have a beginning and or an end? As learning begins often with a question so today a start and a beginning to my writing and thinking with a question. Many of the philosophies of life use comparisons to circles as…

April 14, 2011
A few days misse and an extremely long weekend

Bird Droppings April 13, 2011 A few days missed and an extremely long weekend On Friday April 13, 2008 I was driving and actually did not just forget to write my thoughts down but literally could not. I drove down to Statesboro Georgia to get approval of my course of study for my doctorial work…

April 13, 2011
Is your imagination out of focus?

Bird Droppings April 12, 2011 Is your imagination out of focus? “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Years ago I saw this quote and as I was watching my own young children with Lego…

April 12, 2011
Perhaps my favorite store

Bird Droppings April 11, 2011 Perhaps my favorite store It is the first time this year I needed my alarm to wake up in the morning. I am a bit out of my normal routine perhaps after a week of spring break. Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the…

April 11, 2011
Pondering so many things on the last day of Spring Break

Bird Droppings April 9, 2011 Pondering so many things on the last day of Spring Break Last night I went back over some notes from one of my numerous posts in my graduate school online class site. We had a reading from a paper on a program that was developed in the mid 1980’s in…

April 10, 2011
Hope

Bird Droppings April 7, 2011 Hope “Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air … but only for one second without hope.” Hal Lindsey As I am lazy today and did not venture forth very early other than to take our trusted Westie…

April 7, 2011
Can we find answers?

Bird Droppings April 6, 2011 Can we find answers? Several years ago I would have said there were answers to most any question that could be asked. Today sitting here I wonder granted first you have to ask what is the question or questions but I have a different attitude now sort of one that…

April 6, 2011
Listening to silence

Bird Droppings April 3-5, 2011 Listening to silence I have been lazy these first few days of Spring Break sitting in my yard as the moon is nearly gone listening in silence to what was about me. I was trying to hear the minutest of sounds perhaps the echoes of dogs in neighborhoods a distance…

April 5, 2011
Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum

Bird Droppings April 1, 2011 Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum There is something about the first light on a spring morning and trying to discern how many different birds are singing and calling back and forth waking up. Today was a rough one seems my arthritis in my shoulders is acting up and it…

April 1, 2011
Sacredness and finding Foxfire in the KAlihari

Bird Droppings March 31, 2011 Sacredness and finding Foxfire in the Kalahari I have known about Foxfire for nearly forty years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1973 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to teaching and attended…

March 31, 2011

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