The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 24, 2024How do we know we are grown up? I will hopefully be taking stuff to my new classroom in a few days. Boxes gathered through the years of teaching and training. I will be teaching elementary school again this year, only part-time (49%), so as to keep my retirement intact. I…

Bird Droppings July 23, 2024 Grandparenting and teaching is telling our students and grandchildren the stories. I have been lazy lately. I have been reading and noting my citations for my dissertation but have not pulled them up in a few days due to traveling and recovering from travel. I am finishing up my dissertation…

Bird Droppings July 17, 2024Maybe we are in the wrong. “I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who have no right to talk. Too many misinterpretations have been…

Bird Droppings July 16, 2024Teaching today is tying a knot with only one hand. It was a Saturday morning a few years back, and no one else was up but me. I was about to go out and wander in the darkness for a bit and remembered my cast. Over the years, I have enjoyed…

Bird Droppings June11, 2024Looking in the direction of my journey in Life to start the morning Most mornings, I find myself searching for sunrises. On days I do not work and can go to my favorite spots, I take photos with my phone and camera. On some mornings, I may get in over a hundred…

Bird Droppings July 9, 2024 Sitting at home thinking of a circle I am looking through various shows, movies, and miniseries for a series I enjoyed, Into the West. I will find it one of these days. The series starts and ends with a circle of stones with a line going east to west and…

Bird Droppings July 3, 2024 Listening to a five-note flute and pondering at a Honda dealer and always synchronicity I arise relatively early, even on my days off from my part-time teaching and summer break. Each morning, I run up to my corner store for conversation and to stock up. I need a couple of…

Bird Droppings July 2, 2024 Hearing an owl and thinking about happiness “If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled…

Bird Droppings July 1,, 2024 The synchronicity saga and or the saga of synchronicity I often write about coincidences; it may seem boring to some. It is a never-ending saga of special moments, one after the other. During a college graduate class, we discussed science and measuring data. Intuition and coincidence, it seems, are difficult…

Bird Droppings June 27, 2024 Is synchronicity a focal point on the pathway during our life experiences? My first profound encounter with the idea of synchronicity was possibly at Mercer in one of my psychology classes, but I had forgotten about it, in all honesty. In a previous chapter, I discussed the impact of and…