The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings June 13, 2021Why is seeking peace so difficult? Around the world armies are moving as I write. There are missiles are being aimed and tanks rolling. War is a magnificent profit driving machine for industry. Sadly it is more so about money than national ideology. I have always been against war and always…

Bird Droppings June 12, 2021 Seeking a destination “Life is about the journey not the destination; we don’t know what tomorrow brings” Steven Tyler, AEROSMITH Every once in a while, I get totally amazed, and as I was driving from point A to point B not too many days ago a song was playing in…

Bird Droppings June 11, 2021Life is making a quilt It was nearly fourteen years ago my wife walked in and told me that my mother said this was to be a happy time, a joyous occasion, as we celebrated my father’s life on a Sunday. She said I think we are even having a snow…

Bird Droppings June 10, 2021Teaching in a spiritual sense “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it’s never living apart from oneself. Not about 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 innovator,…

Bird Droppings June 9, 2021Wondering is a powerful tool Several years back during the school year we started sort of a school-wide vocabulary of the week I was reminded of this as I was looking through my various files for quotes and such. About three years ago as the day wound down an email came…

Bird Droppings June 8, 2021Can you be dreaming, imagining, thinking, ponderingand reflecting all in a few minutes? I drove to southeast Georgia over ten years ago to take my oral exams for my doctorate. This was basically a follow-up face to face with my committee of professors and in turn responding to my three written…

Bird Droppings June 5, 2021Often we find ourselves in a fog of education I was heading to my friends Rosary memorial service about three years ago. I got up as I do a bit later on that day and walked a mile in the pool. I tend to meditate and wander in my thinking ponder…

Bird Droppings June 4, 2021 A firefly crossed my path  I wonder how many even notice, when a firefly crosses their path. Most will not even stop to look an insignificant moment in time. Today as I sat in the darkness of a quiet morning fireflies for the first time graced my yard and I…

Bird Droppings June 3, 2021Keeping the stories going remembering a dear friend In years gone by I would visit, take photos and offer my two cents at the Foxfire Approach to Teaching Course put on by Piedmont College for graduate students and teachers already in the classroom in Mountain City Georgia. This course had been…

Bird Droppings June 2, 2021Trying to teach an unteachable child “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy As I…