The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 13, 2010 Getting back the passion It is not just in teaching but in life we need to seek passion. Passion in life is about looking for that sunrise and or sunset, savoring the colors as they melt into night or change to day time. It is that passion about lifting your…

Bird Droppings April 12, 2010 A rock flower and song A journey begins with a step and apathy begins with turning your back and saying I don’t care. Yesterday afternoon my laptop was acting weirder than normal all of my school email jumped to my personal outlook account and then disappeared all my address book…

Bird Droppings April 11, 2010 Finding solutions in all the right places I had a few errands before sitting down to write today and still had time to stop at Quick Trip. The friendly smiles and hellos make me keep coming back. Actually so many mornings my sojourn to the local QT is filled with…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2010 Trying to understand It has been an interesting spring weather wise. I have been battling allergies and sinus issues daily between cool weather, hot weather and rain and then not enough rain to really wash the pollen away and then more pollen. When I woke up this morning later than…

Bird Droppings April 9, 2010 It is not always who we think we are We all think we are always right as we enter into conversations, arguments, maybe even discussions. Our egos tend to override rational thinking and cloud our perception. We seem to assume in this effort everyone else is wrong as well. Myself…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2010 Sometimes in a crash I am always amazed at how we can be redirected many months ago I wrote for nearly an hour and a computer lock up froze and stole my notes. Several really good thoughts were in process. It has been over a year now since I got…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2010 Listening for natures call Lately as I venture out in the wee hours of the morning whip o wills are calling. It has been a few years since I heard them with such regularity. They seem to start after midnight and go till nearly dawn. With a dense stand of…

Bird Droppings April 6, 2010 Take just a moment One of the biggest news stories back about three years ago during March Madness was the dethroning of a shock jock by his broadcasting company for slandering through his use of derogatory language. Thinking back I posted several notes on my graduate school discussion that night…

Bird Droppings April 5, 2010 It is about tomorrow Last Friday midst the various children passing through my room a discussion about how we view the future began in earnest. My contention was we modern folk do not look beyond this current moment very often. We tend to focus literally on now. I thought back…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2010 Finding where community exists As I approached the end of my doctorial course work I was involved in a class on Educational ethics which featured nine texts all of which had an under lying current of caring and relationships as keys to education or I should say to successful teaching.…