Bird Droppings April 16, 2012 Habits or routine   “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to…

Bird Droppings April 15, 2012 Problems are often misunderstood explanations   “Although you may understand the explanations, if you are still suffering because of problems, you clearly do not understand the true nature of your mind, your body, and your senses.” Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Transforming Problems Into Happiness   Every day I deal with numerous…

Bird Droppings April 14, 2012 Making a difference   “Dialogue, is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire   A  Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing. As I read a…

Bird Droppings April 13, 2012 A seemingly simple concept is friendship   Recently the mother of a former student told me how much her son thought of me. I wish it were not so but we all need ego stroking at one time or another. But so often when we pay attention to a student…

  Bird Droppings April 12, 2012 Potential is only that unless acted upon   “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and…

Bird Droppings April 11, 2012 Paradoxes and bewilderment   I received the following in an email just before the 2008 elections, a friend of mine sent it out and as I read the first time it was humorous. However as a teacher I read deeper into what was being said. I listened by coincidence to…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2012 While I detest shopping I like Kroger   Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the day out.  One I heard on the radio going to get gas for my wife a day or two ago from a country music radio announcer recalling an old…

Bird Droppings April 9, 2012 Nothing you can do   “I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.” Confucius, BC 551-479   Very early I woke up to a creak in the house, just a small sound, perhaps the anticipation of our dog waking up but…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2012 Pondering ABABABABABAB                     Last night I went back over some notes from one of my numerous posts in my various blog sites and graduate school notes. I had been reading from a paper on a program that was developed in the mid 1980’s in California. The program with one…

Bird Droppings April 7, 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…