The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings September 21, 2024Ethics and Politics an oxymoron perhaps So many things are happening in our world that are often whims of a politician we voted for or against. Industry is being remade, wars are being fought, jobs are appearing and disappearing, and health care reform is possibly off and on the table. We…

Bird Droppings September 20, 2024For some, creating writing seems difficult in our digital world, and then I start thinking about Tom Petty. “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…

Bird Droppings September 19, 2024 I am sitting thinking of a circle I am looking through various shows, movies, and miniseries for a series I enjoyed, Into the West. I will find it one of these days. The series starts and ends with a circle of stones with a line going east to west and…

Bird Droppings September 18, 2024Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they will talk if you listen. Trouble is that white people do not listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians, so I do not suppose they will listen…

Bird Droppings September 17, 2024 Is the seat of the soul in the heart or mind? I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Peoples. I remembered my father’s Little Strong Arm and Black Eagle stories when I was three or…

Bird Droppings September 16, 2024 How capable do we need to be? What a contrast to only a few days ago, as the sun was hiding behind the haze, rain, and clouds for what felt like a week as I went out in the wee hours with a hazy sky today. A gentle wind blew,…

Bird Droppings September 13, 2024 Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand Many years ago, I was sitting alongside a fence in a field far away from houses and people, and I watched a spider spin a web. We see webs all around, and I read there are thousands of spiders per acre in any…

Bird Droppings September 12, 2024 What about routines? I was walking about Kroger today. It wasn’t that long ago I was using one of those electric carts to race around the store, especially when my left leg was bothering me after I had surgery. No sooner did I get started on one of my last…

Bird Droppings September 7, 2024 Teach to where the learning will be, not to where it is I got a text from my middle son a couple of years ago that a package was coming from my granddaughter and was very fragile. My box came; I thought I should open it while videotaping. I carefully…

Bird Droppings September 6, 2024 What do we miss? Walking the beach makes it easy to miss the small things while gazing at a beautiful sunrise. One might find a starfish, angel wing shell, or cannonball jellyfish. It is similar in life, and we often overlook small matters, focusing only on the large. For many…