The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings August 3, 2022What is this desire for freedom? “Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. As communist systems have assumed, it is not enough merely to provide people with food, shelter, and clothing. Human nature needs to breathe the precious air of…

Bird Droppings July 31, 2022Maybe 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 28, 2022I 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 listen to the choral arrangement of tree frogs, crickets, whippoorwills,…

Bird Droppings July 26, 2022Should 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 made the mistake of getting a flu shot and covid booster simultaneously. I…

Bird Droppings July 22, 2022Why would some instead 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 In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth-grade English class. The book we were reading was Brave New…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2022Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Over the past few days, several storms passed through quickly, each a definitive front literally flying by and ending with rainbows, or so I have been told. On one occasion, a twin rainbow. On the other hand, my sunrises…

Bird Droppings July 20, 2022Is 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 19, 2022Can we use the word sacred truthfully? “Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of freedom I have been a student and…

Bird Droppings July 15, 2022 Pondering and thinking, wiping away a tear or two I was up early today, wishing I could have started my laps in the pool. I have several errands to run for my wife first and hope to avoid afternoon thunder and lightning. As I stood on my back porch, a…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2022 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…