Bird Droppings February 25, 2013 What is this desire for freedom? “Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It is not enough, as communist systems have assumed, merely to provide people with food, shelter and clothing. Human nature needs to breathe the precious air…

Bird Droppings February 24, 2013 Getting over the bumps “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Hannah More Perhaps ahead of her time Ms. More wrote in abundance in the later 1700’s and early 1800’s. She was writing in a time when women should have been sitting…

Bird Droppings February 23, 2013 Saying Goodbye or is it hello? It might have been the fact I had never pulled out my Eagle Scout card from 1967 in class before that got me thinking back. While mired in controversy nationally the Boy Scouts of America have contributed greatly to our culture and country. However…

Bird Droppings February 22, 2013 It has been a long time I was sitting along the edge of reality yesterday evening somewhere in my backyard listening to the wind blow through the pines; it seems pine trees make a better sound till the oak trees have all their leaves in place. Sort of a circular…

Bird Droppings February 21, 2013 What if treaties and promises were all kept, what a world we would have. I begin each morning waking up and finding my way to my computer taking our dog out if she wants to, checking my ipad, making sure my connection is on or network up since we have…

Bird Droppings February 20, 2013 The most powerful of teaching tools is REFLECTION “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” Helen Keller Helen Keller was one of the most envisioned people to have walked the earth yet never for most of her life did she ever see anything in that she…

Bird Droppings February 19, 2013 Wet and dreary as I ponder educational genocide And or NCLB, Norming, Children, Leaves the Best I was huddled in my blanket as I went outside to sit and think a bit earlier granted I was barefooted. The air was still except for a slight rain, dripping from the branches…

Bird Droppings February 18, 2013 Walking to the car and looking at stars I started to practice getting up early today since we start back to school tomorrow. So I sat listening to the sounds of morning and started my wife’s car to warm it up for her. I drove into my favorite store to…

Bird Droppings February 17, 2013 Thinking about other times “The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to…

Bird Droppings February 16, 2013 Pondering getting back to my routine “If we can’t take the time out of our lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are…