The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Carl Jung

  • Don’t crossword puzzles take some time?

    Bird Droppings June 18, 2025Don’t crossword puzzles take some time? Towards the end of my last college history class, one of my students was working on a particular assignment and had to define bias. She was unsure which definition was correct and asked for my opinion. I explained that historical bias is that of the…

  • Teaching is far more than wanting to

    Bird Droppings November 21, 2011 Teaching is far more than just wanting to “I want to say one other challenge that we face is simply that we must find an alternative to war and bloodshed. Anyone who feels, and there are still a lot of people who feel that way, that war can solve the…

  • Only a crazy thought or two

    Bird Droppings November 18, 2011 Only a crazy thought or two Occasionally I will get a crazy thought; my students will say occasionally I have a normal thought that would be more like it. They would be insinuating most of my thoughts are crazy. However Today I was driving to school being lazy I slept…

  • Can that aspect of who we are that we call soul be defined

    September 29, 2011 Can that aspect of who we are we call soul be defined “Soul is different from spirit, the deep soul is the way we live everyday, our longings and our fears.” Thomas Moore It has been over twenty years since I first read this book written by Thomas Moore. I picked up…

  • Learning to Understand and or

    Bird Droppings September 23, 2011 Learning to Understand and or Trying to come to grips with terminal consequences Most recently the state of Georgia’s attention was drawn to a state prison in a small rural community just off the interstate. The Jackson State Prison is home to at least one inmate that I know a…

  • A few days misse and an extremely long weekend

    Bird Droppings April 13, 2011 A few days missed and an extremely long weekend On Friday April 13, 2008 I was driving and actually did not just forget to write my thoughts down but literally could not. I drove down to Statesboro Georgia to get approval of my course of study for my doctorial work…

  • Looking into the depth of soul

    Bird Droppings November 18, 2010 Looking into the depth of our souls I received an email from a dear friend nearly three years ago after writing about humor and it truly made me think and as I pondered last night I responded to the note the following morning and it scares me how we can…

  • Can the soul be defined and or codified part 2

    September 29, 2010 Can soul be defined and codified part 2 “Soul is different from spirit, the deep soul is the way we live everyday, our longings and our fears.” Thomas Moore It has been nearly Twenty years since I first read a book written by Thomas Moore. I picked up a copy of The…

  • A continuing saga

    Bird Droppings August 18, 2010 A continuing saga It is so often that I write of coincidence it may seem boring to some. To me it is a never ending saga of special moments one after the other. During a college graduate class we discussed science and measuring of data, intuition and coincidence it seems…