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Daily, it is all in words, how we find them and how we use them, and perhaps other’s perceptions of those words we use.
Bird Droppings October 16, 2024 Daily, it is all in words, how we find them and how we use them, and perhaps other’s perceptions of those words we use. “The farmer channels water to his land. The fletcher whittles his arrows. And the carpenter turns his wood. So the wise direct their mind.” Dhammapada Many…
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Perhaps, within ourselves, is the change we need?
Bird Droppings October 15, 2024Perhaps, within ourselves, is the change we need? I have been away from my computer for a few minutes. Hopefully, in the next few weeks, I will be hearing from my dissertation chair about defending my paper. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ending my procrastination. I am not complaining,…
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Birddroppings October 14, 2024 Listening to a five-note flute and pondering at a Honda dealer I arise relatively early, even in retirement, on my days off from my part-time teaching. Each morning, I run up to my corner store for conversation and to stock up. I need a couple of Smart water bottles, sometimes the…
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Looking for synchronous moments
Birddroppings October 9, 2024 Looking for synchronous moments My first profound encounter with the idea of synchronicity was possibly at Mercer in one of my psychology classes, but I had forgotten about it, in all honesty. The school of psychology at Mercer was more Jungian than Freudian, even though experimental psychology and Skinner’s ideas seeped…
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Bird Droppings October 1, 2024 Teaching as improvisational art using learning as the pallet I wrote the basics of this article nearly sixteen years ago and thought of an artist friend, now a computer programmer, trying to define her art and searching for her meaning in life. My friend often reflected her political views and…
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Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration.
Bird Droppings September 30, 2024 Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration. Every once in a while, I throw on Hot Tuna, an acoustic blues duo made up of former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy. I highly recommend it when you get a moment to listen to them. A…
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Why are we deliberately wrong in education so often?
Bird Droppings September 29, 2024 Why are we deliberately wrong in education so often? I stopped playing the lottery unless Powerball is over 100 million. I will admit that I am pondering retiring with a Powerball jackpot of nearly three hundred million dollars. I might need to play my numbers. I would fund educational programs…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 