Bird Droppings March 6, 2014 Why should life be a difficult journey? “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” Henry Van Dyke I was visiting with my mother last week and I walked by my fathers and brothers grave site or I…

Bird Droppings March 5, 2014 What is it like to be caught up in a moment of quiet? Well it has been a day or two since the last occasionally coo or whisper on the baby monitor in the living room went off. My son and his family found a great little house nearby and…

Bird Droppings March 4, 2014 Is it only a dropped feather? “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more beautiful and, therefore, naturally more valuable,’ or vice versa. Regardless of which colors are more beautiful, or necessary, or valuable, the truth is…

Bird Droppings February pre28th – hopefully sooner than later Taking a break even though I don’t want too Somehow for nearly fifteen years I have written and produced Bird Dropping into Word Press, Facebook and in the past yahoo groups and an email list of people wanting to read Bird Droppings. Even on days I…

Bird Droppings February 27, 2014 Wandering about while I am waiting Sitting listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash acoustic while I write today. I have been saving my pennies to get a new lens hopefully to be ready for spring. There are so many possibilities with various flowers blooming all about and baby ducks and…

Bird Droppings February 26, 2014 A series of paradoxes and bewilderment I received the following in an email back a few days, 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.…

Bird Droppings February 25, 2014 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, 2014 Getting over the speed 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…

Bird Droppings February 23, 2014 Is it 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…

Bird Droppings February 22, 2014 It has been a long time I was sitting along the edge of reality yesterday evening after getting home from a day of testing at the hospital. Somewhere I was in my backyard listening to the wind blow through the pines; it seems pine trees make a better sound till…