The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Chief Luther Standing Bear

  • What we know

    Bird Droppings December 19, 2011 What we know   “The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.” Booker T. Washington   It has been a few days since I received an email containing a letter from a well-known…

  • 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…

  • Looking for the simplicity

    Bird Droppings December 15, 2011 Looking for the simplicity My reading and writing has taken a beating with the getting ready for the end of the semester and four day jaunt to a wedding in South Carolina and babysitting my granddaughter (actually a lot of fun). Of course nothing would have stopped me from spending…

  • Thinking about a chorus of frogs and crickets

    Bird Droppings December 8, 2011 Thinking about a chorus of Frogs and Crickets   “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd   On most every night and early morning of the year when I walk about especially early in the morning I am listening to the choral arrangement of tree…

  • Looking to Nature for answers

    Bird Droppings December 7, 2011 Looking to Nature for answers   As I read and ponder a world engrossed with money and how we can spend money I wonder if perhaps some of the thinking that is bringing so many American Indians back to their more traditional world views has merit. I was beginning to…

  • So much difference in perceptions

    Bird Droppings September 13, 2011 So much difference in perceptions “The delineation of the difference between modern (secular) society and traditional (Sacred) societies and their competing views of land and nature helps to explain the persistence of severe conflict between such societies. Unlike secular societies – where land signifies property, property signifies capital, and capital…

  • Culture is more than just a word

    Bird Droppings September 2, 2011 Culture is far more than just a word “Silence was meaningful with the , and granting a space of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regardful of the rule that thought comes before speech. In the midst of sorrow, sickness, death or misfortune of…

  • Sailing off the edge and or thinking outside the box

    Bird Droppings August 6, 2011 Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of a box “I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family or nation, but…

  • 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…

  • Humanistic Capitalism

    Bird Droppings September 12, 2010 Humanistic Capitalism “Corporations must assume an active responsibility for creating a healthy society and a habitable planet—not as a gesture to improve corporate image or as a moralistically undertaken responsibility, but because it is the only reasonable long-run interpretation of ‘good business.’ In the end, good business policy must become…