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Thinking about the word trust and how we can not
Bird Droppings February 17, 2014 Thinking about the word trust and how we can not “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…
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Teaching is a journey not copy and paste or bubble.
Bird Droppings February 16, 2014 Teaching is a journey not copy and paste or bubble. It has been several days well over a week since I had a chance to go out early and ponder as I say. It has been many days since I took a photograph with my good camera since I left…
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Windows can be difficult to find especially on Valentine’s Day
Bird Droppings February 14, 2014 Windows can be difficult to find especially on Valentine’s Day I woke up very early today as my dog was barking to go out. I walked out on my back porch only to catch a glimpse of the moon sliding behind the tree line; a sliver moon was slipping below…
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Try not to be a waste of time and read some Emerson
Bird Droppings February 13, 2014 Try not to be a waste of time and read some Emerson “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the most precious things we have is time. As our lives go by we tend to waste more…
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Is there room for politics when people are hurting?
Bird Droppings February 11, 2014 Is there room for politics when people are hurting? Earlier in the morning as I went out after reading a friends note on acclimating to the cold I was standing outside pondering the day ahead in my shorts and t-shirt and it hit me I was freezing my butt off,…
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Why should our children be going to school?
Bird Droppings February 11, 2014 Why should our children be going to school? After reading Joel Spring’s book, Political Agendas for Education, one might wonder why we even have schools. Spring’s implies they are simply to create and mold youth into whatever it is those in power deem feasible. His idea is that it is…
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Listening to a five note flute
Bird Droppings February 10, 2014 Listening to a five note flute “The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the…
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I was listening to the stillness of a morning with no sunrise and or sometimes we need a window and not a mirror.
Bird Droppings February 9, 2014 I was listening to the stillness of a morning with no sunrise and or sometimes we need a window and not a mirror. I was sitting alone this morning as I do on weekend mornings trying to get a few photos of the sunrise. The ambient temperature is still a…
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I am sitting quietly trying to understand the word courage
Bird Droppings February 7, 2014 I am sitting quietly trying to understand the word courage I had been outside running to the store in the wee hours of the morning for some supplies and at 29 degrees it is a cold morning in Georgia one of cooler mornings recently. Stars were scattering as I went…
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The interconnectivity of all that is a puzzle falling in place
Bird Droppings February 6, 2014 The interconnectivity of all that is a puzzle falling in place “Every footstep is the journey. Every sight, every sound, every touch and taste and smell with which we are blessed is the journey. All of the colors before us are the journey, and we are the journey. May we…