The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings June 5, 2010 Can we wait? I missed writing during a weekday for the first time in some while yesterday and all day I felt as if something was missing. There has been so much in my family the past week and today a wedding of one of my cousin’s children. I wish…

Morning Bird Droppings June 3, 2010 Searching for the ends of a bell shaped curve “Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I’ll tell you their philosophy of life.” Dale Carnegie In the aftermath of the Republican and Democratic conventions going on nearly two years ago now I realized how…

Bird Droppings June 1, 2010 Following the Path “In our way of life, with every decision we make, we always keep in mind the Seventh Generation of children to come. When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully, because we know that the faces of future generations are looking up at…

Bird Droppings May 31, 2010 An interesting day I was up earlier than normal and went back to bed after sitting out for a few minutes around midnight or so. It was peaceful sitting in the coolness of a summer evening. I thought earlier we were going to have a storm. A cold front came…

Bird Droppings May 31, 2010 Finding at what point we exist Today is an ordinary day other than being one extra on a long holiday weekend. Today we celebrate Memorial Day honoring our veterans and military friends and family members that have fallen in service to our country. Over the years thinking back to high…

Bird Droppings May 28, 2010 To die a happy death: I have been teaching high school now for nearly ten years and this will be tonight another graduation ceremony and celebration of sorts. I am starting my day a bit later than normal since we work late tonight due to the graduation at eight o’clock.…

Bird Droppings May 27, 2010 Storms at night I wish storms had a better scheduling manager at times while it looked at times last night that a storm was imminent it never came. I had gone out to bring the dog in and clouds were swirling around a nearly full moon providing quite a view…

Bird Droppings May 26, 2010 Cultivating the inner self “If people find no room in their lives to pray or to meditate, to reflect deeply on why they have been created and what they must do with their lives, and to listen with all of their being to the guidance of the universe, then these…

Bird Droppings May 25, 2010 Looking at lyrics from an old friend I first started listening to Neil Young’s music in 1967 or so possibly even earlier if you count Buffalo Springfield, a short lived band and of course 1968 with Crosby Stills and Nash at Woodstock. While I did not make it to Woodstock…

Bird Droppings May 24, 2010 Searching for knowledge “All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly…. We have the right hand that strikes and makes for evil, and we have the…