Bird Droppings August 15, 2012 What is gratitude?   As I do so often searching the book shelves at my local Barnes and Nobles or Borders. I found a few books over the past few trips; two books are by J. T. And William Garrett and focus on Cherokee medicine and spirituality and the other…

Bird Droppings August 14, 2012 Finding our piece and or place   “We are not all called to be great. But we are called to reach out our hands to our brothers and sisters, and to care for the earth in the time we are given” Kent Nerburn, Small Graces   Many years ago walking…

Bird Droppings August 13, 2012 It is more than just wanting to?   “I want to say one other challenge that we face is simply that we must find an alternative to war and bloodshed. Anyone who feels, and there are still a lot of people who feel that way, that war can solve the…

Bird Droppings August 10, 2012 How hard is it to understand war and teaching?   “Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It’s very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are…

Bird Droppings August 9, 2012 What if we had a child’s view of life?               Seldom do I miss getting a Bird Dropping out each morning some weekends I will take a day off and occasionally a storm will knock out internet. Most folks never realize a day missing here and there for it…

Bird Droppings August 8, 2012 Are we going in the right direction?   “I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. I believe that the school must represent present life-life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home,…

Bird Droppings August 7, 2012 Is not wondering is a powerful tool?   Several years back we started sort of a school wide vocabulary of the week and with today being the first day of teachers going back to school I was reminded of this as I was looking through my various files for quotes…

Bird Droppings August 6, 2012 What about real planning?   It has been nearly ten years back I started setting up a new computer and in doing so one of my tasks was getting several years of writing, notes, books (started books), papers, poetry and misc. other information to my new computer. Not only that,…

Bird Droppings August 5, 2012 Why don’t we make it a Shay Day?             It has been a long week pondering getting back to school on Tuesday with teacher training and students a week from Monday. I will do my best to get back into my routine after being off for the summer and trying…

Bird Droppings August 3, 2012 Don’t cross word puzzles take some time?               Towards the end of the last school year one of my students was working on a history assignment and had to define bias. She was not sure which definition was correct and asked my opinion. I explained in history bias is…