The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 28, 2021Maybe 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 27, 2021Finding Soul in looking at Curriculumor Can I get a nickels worth of cheese please There is something about the first light on a summer’s morning. It could be about trying to discern how many different birds are singing and calling back and forth as they are waking up. It could…

Bird Droppings July 26, 2021I 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 23, 2021Should we look within to who we really are? Amazing what a day or two out of routine will do. I actually did not get on my computer and do anything of a writing sort the past two days knowing with the rest of the coming week my last few days…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2021Did 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 20, 2021Why would some 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 In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book we were reading was Brave…

Bird Droppings July 19, 2021Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? In the course of a few days several storms passed through quickly each a very definitive front literally flying by and all ending with rainbows, or so I have been told. On one occasion a twin rainbow. On the…

Bird Droppings July 15, 2021Is 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, or necessary, or valuable, the truth is the…

Bird Droppings July 14, 2021 Are we experiencing genocide of learning? In the midst of my daily journals entries lately it gets hectic. I am trying to recover from my pacemaker surgery and do my writing for my doctorate program, visit with friends, research, reading and discussing when I can. For the first time in…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2021Can 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…