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Philosophy
PROCESSIONAL ALL guests are seated. SONG: When I’m 64 Grandmothers seated Mothers seated SONG: Today I Met the Boy I’m Going to Marry Frank Bird, Matt Bird and Kathleen Snyder enter from right Trae Veal Skyla Morris Gill Arquisola Tiffany Morris Jacob Baird Katie Sumner John Bird Paige Sforzo Frankie Bird Morgan Robey Jonathan Hiers…
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Being human
Bird Droppings September 19, 2010 Being human “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa Such a simple opportunity for us as humans and we have been given that with recent events be it floods, earth quakes, mining disasters, poverty, and so many more events world wide that impact feeding…
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I can’t do it
Bird Droppings September 17-18, 2010 I can’t do it “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi I was giving a make up test in a literature class yesterday when a student asked why he should even take the test he was going…
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You can wait a minute
Bird Droppings September 16, 2010 You can wait a moment “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” Franklin P. Jones I have yet to understand impatience as I experienced a situation yesterday with a teacher that made little sense. I understood what was going on yet within that…
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So much difference in perceptions
Bird Droppings September 15, 2010 So much difference in perceptions “The delineation of the difference between modern (secular) society and traditional (Sacred) societies and their competing views of land and nature helps to explain the persistence of severe conflict between such societies. Unlike secular societies – where land signifies property, property signifies capital, and capital…
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Humanistic Capitalism
Bird Droppings September 12, 2010 Humanistic Capitalism “Corporations must assume an active responsibility for creating a healthy society and a habitable planet—not as a gesture to improve corporate image or as a moralistically undertaken responsibility, but because it is the only reasonable long-run interpretation of ‘good business.’ In the end, good business policy must become…
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Culture is far more than just a word
Bird Droppings September 9, 2010 Culture is far more than just a word “Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and granting a space of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regardful of the rule that thought comes before speech. In the midst of sorrow, sickness, death or misfortune of…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 