Bird Droppings October 13, 2012 It is not about random acts of kindness?   I was a bit under the weather when I got up this morning and my faithful dog decided I did not need sleep as well. She was quick run outside and then wanted right back in the house. It was close…

Bird Droppings October 12, 2012 Can simple words contain wisdom?   I am sitting here at least thinking about our new smart initiative in our county. That is we are going the route of iPads versus books next year for students.   “It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these…

Bird Droppings October 11, 2012 Why is it so often hard walking a path to the top?   I recall thinking back several months or so when while visiting Macon Georgia on my way to Statesboro for a meeting on graduate school, that I went out to the Indian Mounds. I am drawn to this…

Bird Droppings October 10, 2012 Do we really understand the word faith? “Your daily life is your temple and your religion.”  Kahlil Gibran Maybe a bit of rewording and Gibran has a very powerful statement, not that it is not already. Your daily life is others window to your faith. I was thinking back to…

Bird Droppings October 9, 2012 What we see in a word or two?   “There are people who, when they see the word passion in a book’s title, may not open its cover because that word conjures up imagery of excessive feeling that shortcuts clear and dispassionate thinking. Though the relationship between the word and…

Bird Droppings October 8, 2012 What are we doing to our kids?   I started writing this in addition to yesterday’s thoughts just before heading to North Georgia to drop off our granddaughter fully intending on completing and having ready to post my dropping for the day and one thing led to another and soon…

Bird Droppings October 7, 2012 Surmounting difficulties   “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss   “There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Bottome   It has…

Bird Droppings October 5, 2012 Where do we find happiness?   “The very purpose of our life is happiness; the very motion of our lives is toward happiness.” the Dalai Lama   It has been several years since in my journey through life I wandered through the Mall of Athens on a particular day. It…

Bird Droppings October 4, 2012 Pondering is that a word?   Today is an interesting day; I am within a few hours of finishing an IEP for a student and preparing several lesson plans for next week. I was thinking back a few years to our last house, it is so welcome to be back…

Bird Droppings October 3, 2012 Why are we only a small part of all that is? It is often very difficult for some to except being simply a part of and not the central focus of life around them. I was watching the beginning of the movie Seven Pounds and in the first scene or…