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Children are being taught as they walk through life.
Bird Droppings February 2, 2026Children are being taught as they walk through life. It is a beautiful winter day outside, and quiet after a crazy couple of days of severe weather. It seems the solitude of the country has changed rapidly over the past year. A developer bought our subdivision and has built 30 more…
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Quietly listening to Bob Dylan and pondering the word inspiration.
Bird Droppings March 7, 2025Quietly listening to Bob Dylan and pondering the word inspiration. My mind wandered back fifteen years or more to a county-wide teacher kick-off meeting. I thought back to another time, 2020, when many teachers were still monitoring lessons from computers, not in the classroom. Many communities banned gatherings of fifty or…
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Bird Droppings January 31, 2026 Whenever I get around teachers, I end up pondering Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform.” The answer is simple: CARING. “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in…
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Green Bay, Wisconsin, is cold. Did Lombardi ever wear gloves?
Bird Droppings January 27, 2026Green Bay, Wisconsin, is cold. Did Lombardi ever wear gloves? “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” Vince Lombardi It has been a few days since I used a Lombardi quote. It could be the temperature in the teens got me thinking about Lombardi. Years…
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Maybe some snow and ice and silence
Bird Droppings January 23, 2026Maybe some snow and ice and silence “I have never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are, for the most part, more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.” Henry David Thoreau, Solitude, Walden, 1854 There has been an attraction…
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Trying to understand giving thanks, war, and Teaching and heart
Bird Droppings January 22, 2026Trying to understand giving thanks, war, and Teaching and heart I seldom have a difficult time sleeping. I crashed the other night after a long day of cleaning up after my grandkids and a long week getting stitches out and closure on my surgery, and trying to keep up with my…
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Why should there be no teasing?
Bird Droppings January 19, 2026Why should there be no 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, I often speak first and clean up afterward, simply walking away, leaving whoever I am conversing with confused. I have a…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 