The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 15, 2010 I wonder if you can get moon burn Last night just before heading in we as a family sat on the back porch watching hummingbirds get in a few more sips of nectar from the feeders and listening to tree frogs begin their nightly chorus. As I stood outside I…

Bird Droppings July 14, 2010 Walking out among the Cotton Woods I walked outside earlier as I do so many mornings just to ponder the day ahead and by chance looked over to where our famous dog moose is buried. A mockingbird was sitting on the Grancy Grey beard tree by Moose’s grave singing away.…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2010 Pondering a bit more than usual today Yesterday’s storm knocked out our internet and it is still down hopefully alive and well in the morning tomorrow. I have talked to an old friend today my former principal discussing many issues of life, politics and education. I sat down with a…

Bird Droppings July 12, 2010 Two Standing Bears I was going through my library of books over the weekend looking for additional references for my dissertation and found this copy from 1972 of The Ponca Chiefs. The following quote is from a court room dialogue of the first time legally Native American were found to…

Bird Droppings July 11, 2010 Religion is what you make of it “A poor devotee points to the sky and says, ‘God is up there.’ An average devotee says, ‘God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master.’ The best devotee says, ‘God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.’” Ramakrishna…

Bird Droppings July 10, 2010 What is normal? “Normality in fact has nothing to do with statistics. It refers to a norm, a model of perfection, an example to be followed. It indicates what we should be. Normality is therefore something to strive for, something at which to aim, it is not what most people…

Bird Droppings July 9, 2010 What it is we are about? In the midst of doing my literature searches and reading articles, books, dissertations and numerous other forms of communication I came up on a text about motivation. As I tend to do while reading several other ideas popped up. I was thinking of the…

Bird Droppings July 8, 2010 I saw a Red Tailed Hawk As I look at that statement it is meaningless for many, a red tailed hawk crossed my path as I traveled yesterday flying across the road landing in a tree. For some there is significance. It has been a few summers since I had…

Bird Droppings July 7, 2010 We need a few cool days here and there “All Sioux ceremonies end with the words, mitakuye oyasin, ‘all my relations’ meaning every living being on this Earth, every plant and animal, down to the smallest flower and tiniest bug.” Richard Erdoes, Crying for a Dream It has been a…

Bird Droppings July 6, 2010 Trying to see the world with a narrow lens and or Doing is the way to learn “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird…