The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings January 27, 2010 A circle I missed the last rerun of a favorite miniseries “Into the west” and one of these days will find the DVD set. The movie started and ended with a circle of stones with a line going east to west and one going north to south through the circle.…

Bird Droppings January 26, 2010 Go up another rung! I walked outside just a few minutes ago into a chilly breeze. The sky was clear and the only sound is the flapping of the neighborhood flag against the flag pole. I looked around as my dog did whatever dogs to when they go out and…

Bird Droppings January 25, 2010 Reconciliation of trust “It’s the examination of conscience. Unless you examine your conscience, you don’t know what you have to be sorry for and what to confess” Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M., S.T.D., Ten Tips for Better Confessions, The Gift of Reconciliation Sort of difficult starting the week with a vocabulary word…

Bird Droppings October 24, 2008 Looking within to who we really are Where do I start several key elements of my day yesterday brought about thinking and pondering that lead me to now? Several students and former students and I have been talking about James Kavanaugh, author, poet, thinker and theologian. As I left school…

Bird Droppings January 21, 2010 LIFE Morning is a special time a beginning. Several aspects make it special first one of taking the dogs out and talking with them as they sniff and do their thing in the yard. Then I go to my writing and reading which has become my meditation for the day…

Bird Droppings January 20, 2010 It be great if we could script great teachers As I watched the several various movies about teachers recently it hit me, wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow provide a package for great teaching. If someone could write that perfect script that anyone could follow and allow anyone…

Bird Droppings January 19, 2010 Why can we not listen as teachers? I spent the better part of yesterday driving between Macon Georgia and home and back. My son needed some books and a few things from the house and to buy text books. Timing as it was banks were closed yesterday so I could…

Bird Droppings January 17, 2010 Teasing “Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, and is it true, does it improve on the silence?” Hindu proverb So often do I speak first and clean up afterwards many times simply walking away quiet generally leaving whoever I am conversing with confused and bewildered.…

Bird Droppings January 15, 2010 Apathy is more than a vocabulary Word “I often see students who are narrow-minded, who gain a little bit in a limited context, with a limited perspective, and consider this enough, immediately insisting on stopping and resting. Eating their fill and sleeping, not taking care of anything at all, they…

Bird Droppings January 14, 2010 A tapestry woven as the spider spins “For certain fortunate people there is something that transcends all classifications of behavior, and that is awareness, something which rises from the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than games and that is intimacy. But…