The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings November 12, 2009 CREATIVITY I got up this morning to check my emails and write as I do every morning about three thirty or so and my youngest son is still posting on facebook from his dorm in Macon from college. I was talking to a good friend yesterday about how life as…

Bird Droppings November 11, 2009 Clearing a pathway “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” Elwyn Brooks White Often I reflect on the journey of life. The many directions I myself have traveled and…

Bird Droppings November 10, 2009 A searcher myself “I will probably be a searcher until I die and hopefully death itself will only be another adventure. To live any other way seems impossible. If anything has changed over the years, and it has, I only feel more confident now about what I wrote then. I…

Bird Droppings November 9, 2009 Is it what we see? “The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.” Richard Bach Bach’s quote is a simple analogy in life yet so true. Looking at this…

Bird Droppings November 6, 2009 Is age a point of maturity “Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.” Ann Landers Since the beginning of my returning to teaching nearly nine years ago…

Bird Droppings November 5, 2009 Individuality can be a lonely journey I walked out about 1:30 AM this morning taking my westie for her constitutional and off in the pines that are within a hundred feet of my house, several hundred acres of dense pines, a barred owl was calling. I am used to the…

Bird Droppings November 4, 2009 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu I began the day thinking back to a song one of my students chose to write about several years ago, Live like you were dying by Tim McGraw. The assignment was to pick a favorite song and find the lyrics then explain…

Bird Droppings November 3, 2009 Turning an ugly face jug It has been a few years since the last time I talked with and watched the late Cleater Meadors turn a jug on the potter’s wheel at Mossy Creek Arts and Crafts fair in Perry Georgia. A simple lump of clay in a skilled artist’s…

Bird Dropping November 2, 2009 Thinking about compassion It is quiet at school on a Sunday during fall break since I was alone yesterday for the last day of our break. Here in Georgia at least in our county we have not gone the route of year around school and have a few extra weeks…

Bird Droppings November 1, 2009 Searching for answers on a birthday in reflection and thought As I look forward to being another year older and with that many more moments for reflection and thoughts the past week especially being out of school for fall break. I went out to the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds last weekend…