The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Dr. Carl G. Jung

  • Passion is a word reserved for those who have it!

    Bird Droppings May 18, 2012 Passion is a word reserved for those who have it!               I walked out for the second day in a row to calls from whippoorwills and a doe and her twin nearly grown fawns grazing within almost touching distance. I got up rather early for my last day of…

  • Trying to see the world with a narrow lens

    Bird Droppings May 17, 2012 Trying to see the world with a narrow lens   My wife used to pick on my seventies glasses, big wide lenses and frames that they were. I recently went and got a new prescription and modern frames and lenses much smaller and narrower. I was sitting outside this morning…

  • Searching for, looking at, and finally placing the pieces to the puzzle

    Bird Droppings May 16, 2012 Searching for, looking at and finally placing the pieces to the puzzle “The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ”social worker” -judge.” Dr. Michael Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas             Last night…

  • Dreams do not stand alone

    Bird Droppings May 15, 2012 Dreams do not stand alone   “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach   It has been so many years since I first experienced the whimsical book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach’s…

  • Can we lend another ear?

    Bird Droppings May 14, 2012 Can we lend another ear?   “Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art.” Frank Tyger   After trying to find out who is Frank Tyger I have to resolve that I still do not know but I like the quote. Many years ago I…

  • Finding Foxfire in the Kalahari

    Bird Droppings May 13, 2012 Finding Foxfire in the Kalahari   “Not only the present, but the future depends on a constant reinterpretation of history and a re-examination of the state and nature of human consciousness. Both these processes are profoundly and mysteriously interdependent and doomed to failure without a continuous search after self-knowledge, since…

  • Looking for the passion in life

    Bird Droppings May 12, 2012 Looking for the passion in life “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions; but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr. Eric Berne, The games people…

  • I write for teachers who choose to see through new eyes

    Bird Droppings May 11, 2012 I write for teachers who choose to see through new eyes   “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton   It has been nearly seven years since we last moved and seems we might stay here a while.…

  • Looking for and clearing a pathway

    Bird Droppings May 10, 2012 Looking for and clearing a pathway “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.” Elwyn Brooks White Often I reflect on the journey of life and the many directions I…

  • Teach by doing and living

    Bird Droppings May 9, 2012 Teach by doing and living   I have been reading, printing out articles and writing quite extensively over the past few days. Actually for at least a few days more like we are into only eight left now till summer break and serious writing time. Sadly my brain feels like…