The daily meanderings of a teacher

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…

Bird Droppings July 12, 2021Doing what you love is not really work I watched four different news channels this morning and ended on One America News. They banter about everyone else being fake news and I listened to the twisting and manipulation of words, and I am not sure how they are allowed to stay…

Bird Droppings July 9, 2021 Pondering and thinking wiping away a tear or two I was up incredibly early today wishing I could have been finished my laps in the pool having to get out due to thunder and lightning. A great horned owl was calling in the woods as I stood there. It seems…

Bird Droppings July 8, 2021How do we know we are grown up? “The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them; he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself; he becomes wise.” Alden Nowlan Earlier this week a former student posted on my Facebook…

Bird Droppings July 7, 2021 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…

Bird Droppings July 6, 2021 How capable do we need to be? Inspired by a student. What a contrast to only a few days ago listening to the Atlantic Ocean, the moon is coming back smiling at me as I went out in the wee hours with a crystal-clear sky. There was a gentle wind…

Bird Droppings July 5, 2021Are we missing Creativity? This was another quiet morning as I wandered out and about already birds hiding from view are calling. As for the crickets and frogs as always a beautiful chorus for the morning awakening. Yesterday later in the day several tree frogs visited our back porch hiding under…

Bird Droppings July 4, 2021Just a morning observation “I do not write from mythology when I reflect upon Native American spirituality in this book. In my own opinion, mythology leads to superstition; and superstition has proved fatally destruction to many millions down through time. It is ironic, then that Dominant Society accuses Native practices of…

Bird Droppings July 2, 2021Foxfire is a name for a fungus glowing in the dark, until you wander up Black Rock Mountain A few weeks back I was involved in another synchronous adventure, as I am literally daily. I have been thinking about it ever since. I have been a fan of Carl Jung and the…