The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 23, 2023 Eating some leftover chicken parmesan and thinking about the circle of life I made a huge pan of chicken parmesan a couple of days ago and had plenty of leftovers. So I am sitting at my computer working on my Birddroppings and dissertation, eating some. Several things have led me…

Bird Droppings April 22, 2023Can we find Truth in an untruthful world? For the third or fourth time, I reread a book titled; Every Day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the past Chief of The Cherokee Nation and a Native American Activist, author, lecturer,…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2023 Making a difference each day “Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing. As I read a…

Bird Droppings April 17, 2023I’m not too fond of shopping, but I like Kroger About eight years back, I spent nearly a week using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer until getting the fan fixed. It was interesting. Two similar thoughts came to me this morning as I started the day out. One…

Bird Droppings April 9, 2023Ethics and Politics So many things are happening in our world that are often whims of a politician we voted for or, in my case, against. Industry is being remade, wars are being fought, jobs are appearing and disappearing, and health care reform is possibly off and on the table. We…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2023I am pondering ABNANBNANBNANBNANBNANBC or antecedent behavior, new antecedent, new behavior, etc. Last night I reviewed some notes from one of my numerous posts on my various blog sites and graduate school comments. I had been reading from a paper on a program developed in the mid-1980s in California. The program…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2023Wind in the trees Over the past weeks, several storms have come through the area. Just before I went to bed last night, according to the weather, we would get another in the morning; now, it is clear through Saturday. Several times during the night, I awakened, and a storm was…

Bird Droppings April 5, 2023Getting ready “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and it’s a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” Russell Means I walked early this morning before sunrise taking…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2023A spiritual side to teaching. “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it’s never living apart from oneself. Not about the absence of other people – it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others.” Parker Palmer Dr. Parker Palmer is an…

Bird Droppings March 26, 2023A morning meandering while the moon is glowing Almost eight years ago, after tutoring in an after-school program with a student who needs constant repetition of material to remember, I read through several old emails from my doctorate and graduate cohort friends as some are defending their dissertations in the coming…