The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Black Elk

  • Telling our grandchildren

    Bird Droppings December 18, 2011 Telling our grand children “I wanted to give something of my past to my grandson. So I took him into the woods, to a quiet spot. Seated at my feet he listened as I told him of the powers that were given to each creature. He moved not a muscle…

  • A tapestry woven and each thread interconnects

    Bird Droppings November 26, 2011 A tapestry woven as each thread interconnects “For certain fortunate people there is something that transcends all classifications of behavior, and that is awareness, something which rises from the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than games and that is intimacy. But…

  • Spirituality an uncertain certainty?

    Bird Droppings November 25, 2011 Spirituality an uncertain certainty? “When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.” Albert Einstein What has always…

  • A path to the top

    Bird Droppings November 8, 2011 A path to the top Sitting in my kitchen I was too lazy to take my computer upstairs this weekend and got listening to a great horned owl calling outside. For several days I have been slowed down by a respiratory infection and literally spent most of the past few…

  • Teaching can be successful

    Bird Droppings September 3, 2011 Teaching can be successful So as I do on many mornings when I can, I walked out to a quiet corner of my back yard nestled in a patch of weeds and brush and looked toward the east. In the morning with the sunrise the threads of life as I…

  • What do we miss?

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2011 What do we miss? All Along the Watchtower There must be some way out of here, Said the joker to the thief, There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief. Businessmen, they drink my wine, Plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line Know what any of…

  • Curriculum is it sacred?

    Bird Droppings July 7, 2011 Curriculum is it as sacred? So often even a miniscule one triggers with me a memory. We have a standing joke at our house about the rabbits that live around our yard. My wife continually mentions the book, Watership Downs, when addressing the bold creatures. Yesterday I was heading to…

  • The infinity or confines of a circle

    Bird Droppings April 14, 2011 The confines or infinity of a circle Does a circle have a beginning and or an end? As learning begins often with a question so today a start and a beginning to my writing and thinking with a question. Many of the philosophies of life use comparisons to circles as…

  • A series of paradoxes and bewilderments

    Bird Droppings February 25, 2011 A series of paradoxes and bewilderment I received the following in an email yesterday, a friend of mine sent it out and as I read the first time it was humorous. However as I pondered then as a teacher I read deeper into what was being said. I listened by…

  • How do we know if we are still human?

    Bird Droppings January 27, 2011 How do we know if we are still human? Perhaps it is from growing up in a situation where we were aware of special needs children and adults directly from the birth of our younger brother till his passing almost fifteen years ago that those in my family have had…