Bird Droppings April 9, 2013 How could it be neither wolf nor dog? It has been sometime since I first read the book Neither Wolf nor Dog, which happens to have been written by one of my favorite authors Kent Nerburn. Listening to political gibberish and sitting watching twitter comments through indigenous news casts the…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2013 Is it a habit or routine? “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2013 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 5, 2013 Potential is only that unless it is acted upon “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2013 While I detest shopping I really like Kroger Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the day out. One I heard on the radio going to get gas for my wife a country music radio announcer recalling an old George W. Bush quote, and the…

Bird Droppings April 3, 2013 Pondering ABABABABABAB Last night I went back over some notes from one of my numerous posts in my various blog sites and graduate school notes. I had been reading from a paper on a program that was developed in the mid 1980’s in California. The program with one teacher in…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2013 Listening for nature’s call Lately as I venture out in the wee hours of the morning whippoorwills are calling. It has been a few years since I heard them with such regularity. They seem to start after midnight and go till nearly dawn. Close to the house is a dense…

Bird Droppings April 1, 2013 A song in and of the morning There is a time each day when the birds’ first start singing it is generally just before the sun begins to come up. First one and then another start in and soon birds can be heard throughout the trees. I stood trying to…

Bird Droppings March 31, 2013 Seeking Perfection midst the mud “I have found there are those who can write and speak fluently and yet do not have anything to say and then there are those who have something to say who may not be so fluent. The big question is who do, you listen too?”…

Bird Droppings March 29, 2013 Can we really find answers? Several years ago I would have said there were answers to almost any question that could be asked. Today sitting here I wonder granted first you have to ask what is the question or questions but I have a different attitude now sort of one…