The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: bible

  • Wind in the trees

    Bird Droppings August 9, 2025Wind in the trees Over the past weeks, we have had nearly ten inches of rain, and storms have come through the area. Just before I went to bed a few nights ago, we were to get another in the morning; now, it is clear through Sunday. Several times, a few…

  • Why do we wish, wonder, and wait?

    Bird Droppings July 9, 2025 Why do we wish, wonder, and wait? “Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.” William Davenant It has been nearly twenty years since we moved in and found ourselves in this house.  I wasn’t sure where to start. Several ideas have been running through my mind…

  • How capable do we need to be?

    Bird Droppings July 8, 2025 How capable do we need to be? What a contrast to only a few weeks ago, as the sun was hiding, I went out in the wee hours with a hazy sky. A gentle wind blew, wind chimes ringing peacefully, and frogs chirping in the pines and oak trees. I…

  • How do we know we have grown up?

    Bird Droppings June 27, 2025How do we know we have 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 a simple line…

  • Individuality can be a lonely journey for some of us, a lifelong pathway.

    Bird Droppings May 23, 2025Individuality can be a lonely journey for some of us, a lifelong pathway. It was fifteen years ago that I walked out about 1:30 AM this morning, taking our westie for her constitutional, and off in the pines that are within a hundred feet of our house, several hundred acres of…

  • Being reborn is simply listening with the heart

    Bird Droppings May 14, 2025 Being reborn is simply listening with the heart So often in life, we hear words and rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion, and then logically state a response. I was sitting in a meeting after talking with my principal about next year, and being a retired part-timer, I am sort…

  • Can we find Truth in an untruthful world?

    Bird Droppings March 27, 2025Can we find Truth in an untruthful world? For the third or fourth time, I reread “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women” by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a Native American Activist, author, lecturer, and a several-time…

  • Bird Droppings March 22, 2025Wind in the trees Over the past weeks, several storms have come through the area. I Had a tree guy come out and take down some trees that were leaning or broken off. Just before I went to bed last night, according to the weather forecast, we were expected to get…

  • Children are being taught as they live.

    Bird Droppings March 8, 2025Children are being taught as they live. It is a beautiful spring day outside and quiet after a crazy couple of days of severe weather. It seems the solitude of the country has changed rapidly over the past years. A developer bought our subdivision and has put up thirty more houses.…

  • Religion is what you make of it.

    Bird Droppings March 4, 2025Religion is what you make of it. It is hard to explain the relief after defending my dissertation yesterday. I am still somewhat in shock. However, you can now officially call me docbird. My dad was called Doc in the Navy as he was the medical officer for the ship he…