The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 25, 2023How do we know we are grown up? I will be taking my stuff to my new classroom in a bit. 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 19, 2023I am listening to a chorus of frogs, crickets, and an occasional owl. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd Most every night and early morning, when I walk about, especially early in the morning, I am listening to the choral arrangement of tree frogs, crickets,…

Bird Droppings July 18, 2023Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they will talk if you listen. Trouble is that white people do not listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians, so I do not suppose they will listen…

Bird Droppings July 17, 2023Maybe 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 14, 2023Why would someone rather send a photo than write? “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth-grade English Class. The book we were reading was Brave New World,…

Bird Droppings July 10, 2023Should we look within to who we are? Amazing what a day or two out of routine will do. I did not get on my computer and do anything of a writing sort the past few days; I got a covid booster simultaneously with a Kroger trip. I only have a…

Bird Droppings July 3, 2023Is it only a dropped feather? “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more beautiful and, therefore, naturally more valuable,’ or vice versa. Regardless of which colors are more beautiful, necessary, or valuable, the truth is the bottom…

Bird Droppings July 2, 2023 Should we consider ignorance a part of the journey? “If I want to justify my existence and continue to be obsessed with the notion that I’ve got to do something for humanity — well, teaching ought to quell that obsession — and if I can ever get around to an…

Bird Droppings July 6, 2022Foxfire is a name for a fungus glowing in the dark until you wander up Black Rock Mountain. A few weeks back, I was involved in another synchronous adventure, as I am daily. I have been thinking about it ever since. I have been a fan of Carl Jung and the idea…

“Brute force, no matter how strong Bird Droppings June 29, 2023What is this desire for freedom? “Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It is not enough, as communist systems have assumed, merely to provide people with food, shelter, and clothing. Human nature needs…