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…

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…

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…

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…

Bird Droppings February 5, 2014 Writing for some seems so difficult in a digital world “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was Brave New…

Bird Droppings February 4, 2014 Solitude is within ones soul and heart “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear filled eyes, one affirmation endures..one truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where there…

Bird Droppings February 3, 2014 Why would anyone be a teacher? I was talking with students several days ago about going into teaching and one of the students actually wanted to be a teacher. Along that line the Georgia Legislator had discussed previously if only briefly increasing teacher pay by four percent after numerous years…

Bird Droppings February 2, 2014 Apathy is being there and never having really gone “The problem isn’t materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we…

Bird Droppings January 31, 2014 Reconciliation of trust “It’s the examination of conscience. Unless you examine your conscience, you don’t know what you have to be sorry for and what to confess” Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M., S.T.D., Ten Tips for Better Confessions, The Gift of Reconciliation Sort of difficult ending this shortened week with a vocabulary…

Bird Droppings January 30, 2014 Sitting thinking of a circle I missed the last rerun of a favorite miniseries, Into the West, and one of these days will find the DVD set. The movie starts and ends with a circle of stones with a line going east to west and one going north to south…