The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 24, 2024 Being reborn is simply listening with the heart So often in life, we hear words and rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion, and then logically state a response. I was sitting in a meeting after talking with my principal about next year, and being a retired part-timer, I am sort…

Bird Droppings May 22, 2024Are we missing Creativity? Today was another quiet morning as I wandered out and about, taking sunrise pictures as I do when there is some color in the sky. The birds were hiding from view were already calling. The crickets and frogs, as always, are a beautiful chorus for the morning…

Bird droppings May 21, 2024Translating and communicating also involve perception “Scientific management is always on guard against people who don’t fit securely into boxes, whether because of too much competency, too much creativity, too much popularity, or what have you. Although often hired, it is with the understanding they must be kept on a short…

Bird Droppings May 20, 2024What do we miss? Walking the beach at sunrise makes it easy to miss the small things while gazing at a beautiful sunrise. One might find a starfish, angel wing shell, or cannonball jellyfish. It is similar in life, and we often overlook small matters, focusing only on the large. My…

Bird Droppings May 19, 2024 Teaching can be successful, and it can happen at any time. When I am home, I try to walk out to a quiet corner of my backyard; yesterday, I walked as I always do when we go to the beach at Pawleys Island. Even at the beach, strands of spider…

Bird Droppings May 18, 2024It takes more than one strand to make a rope. I opened a Matthew Fox daily meditation, which was based on Thomas Merton, who in his lifetime was a Trappist monk. Merton’s words were of his Celtic heritage and his grandmother’s family name, Bird. I found it interesting as I know…

Bird Droppings May 16, 2024 Constructivism Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Dewey, and others Friday, three years ago, I had a heart pacemaker installed. It is charged  for eight to ten years, and I feel considerably better. My heart rate had been going as low as thirty-six and fluctuating throughout the day. I was fatigued all the…

Bird Droppings May 14, 2024In a world of data, can we still use intuition? A year ago, I spent the better part of the week either sitting on or walking on the beach at Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Whenever my wife and I go, we ensure we see the sunrise every morning. It was supposed…

Bird Droppings May 13, 2024Life is making a quilt. Nearly seventeen years ago, my wife told me that my mother said this would be a joyous time as we celebrated my father’s life on a Sunday. She said we even have a snow cone machine, and I thought it gets hot in Georgia on an…

Bird Droppings May 12, 2024Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu After returning from my sunrise photography, I walked into the house after running a few errands, and I spent an hour trying to photograph birds. I finally got to sit down to write. I was thinking back a few years…