The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 29, 2010 Are you a Weginahsa? It is just barely four o’clock in the morning and my westie needed to take a run outside to do her morning thing. Lately she has slept most of the night but today after I had finished off my bagel and cream cheese she started barking…

Bird Droppings April 27, 2010 Hearing can be an active pursuit Walking out into a moon lit morning listening to owls and whippoorwills calling through the stillness is something for me of a humbling nature. With a slight chill in the air the past few mornings crickets and tree frogs have been silent and as…

Bird Droppings April 26, 2010 A founding father “Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” Alexander Hamilton As I looked through news this morning many of the situations go back to ideas and thoughts begun…

Bird Droppings April 23, 2010 Missing a day So often I speak of coincidence in life. Yesterday afternoon and evening while helping my wife with a power point presentation I was also working on a new Bird Droppings. Some ideas had hit me and I was putting to paper or hard drive so to say.…

Bird Droppings April 22, 2010 How do we filter it all? “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.” T.S. Elliot Sifting through the tons of information that bombard us daily is a task, be it emails, text messages, cell phone calls, advertising on the…

Bird Droppings April 21, 2010 Before his time “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.” Arthur Schopenhauer Many great thinkers have found their motivation and beginnings in Schopenhauer. Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the first westerners to read and understand Eastern thought. He was well read and written which…

Bird Droppings September 18, 2007 Green Bay Wisconsin is cold “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” Vince Lombardi It has been a few days since I used a Lombardi quote. Years back I can recall my father borrowing verbiage from the great coach of the Green bay Packers…

Bird Droppings April 19, 2010 POTENTIAL “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and magically merged into a lifelong friendship. And I’ve…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2010 Horses and Trains and learning It has been many years since I last rode on a train. I mean a serious train going more then the distance between concourses at an airport. Years ago when I lived in the Philadelphia area, we all used mass transit to commute, to go…

Bird Droppings April 16, 2010 Habits or routine “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to follow…