The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 25, 2021Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration. It has been some time since I was made aware of the band Hot Tuna. Sitting here listening to their music takes me back to 1973 or 4 in Macon Georgia and fellow who I went to school with. We were…

Bird Droppings April 24, 2021 Eating some left-over chicken parmesan and thinking about the circle of life A couple days ago I made a huge pan of chicken parmesan 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 to…

Bird Droppings April 23, 2021 Are you a Weginahsa? “The work of a teacher – exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same – is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely practical…

Bird Droppings April 22, 2021Can we find truth in an untruthful world? I went back to read a book again for the third or fourth time, 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…

Bird Droppings April 21, 2021Pondering and thinking about the lyrics from an old friend Back in the “normal” days, I stood in line behind a young man in his mid-thirties and I assume his wife at a BBQ place at Stone Mountain Park. I know we can argue it is a memorial to the south…

Bird Droppings April 20, 2021 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 19, 2021I detest shopping, but I really like Kroger About five years back I spent nearly a week of using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer until getting the fan fixed. It was interesting I had two thoughts while similar that came to me this morning as I started the…

Bird Droppings April 16, 2021It is said dreams do not stand alone “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach It has been so many years since I first read and experienced the whimsical book Jonathan Livingston…

Bird Droppings April 15, 2021Can we figure a way to filter it all? “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” T.S. Elliot Sifting through the tons of information that bombard us daily is a task, be it emails, text messages, cell phone calls, advertising…

Bird Droppings April 14, 2021Going to school another day So often as I start my writings each morning there has been an experience recently to build upon. It is utilizing these previous experiences that provide windows and doors into future experiences borrowing from John Dewey. I was driving through our town months back and a…