The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: faith

  • Families and Friends

    Bird Droppings December 19, 2025Families and Friends The holidays are coming here soon. This holiday will be different, and Thanksgiving was less crowded. Pat and I were talking, Thanksgiving will be the sixth in forty-seven years we have had a smaller meal. This semester of graduate school is ending. I have some work to complete.…

  • The fragility and power of life

    Bird Droppings January 16, 2025 The fragility and power of life I was awakened early with a vivid dream this morning. I am also getting old and needed to take a potty break. Hearing a teenager, I assume, tearing out of our subdivision about two in the morning also did not help my sleep. Around…

  • Looking in the direction of my journey in life to start the morning

    Bird Droppings December 10, 2025Looking in the direction of my journey in life to start the morning “Beginnings start in the east – from where the sun rises, we begin a new dawn. Each day is a good new day with a fresh beginning, a new start. East is the direction of the physical body…

  • Living a moment at a time

    Bird Droppings November 26, 2025 Living a moment at a time On Tuesday morning, I walked out into my yard to take a few photos after missing the sunrise. From the field behind us, a red-tailed hawk soared around once and landed in a large, black walnut tree next to us. It was only seventy-five…

  • Waiting for a miracle on some occasions can take some time.

    Bird Droppings November 10, 2025 Waiting for a miracle on some occasions can take some time. I wrote this piece over twenty years ago, and it remains a cherished part of my heart. Miracle is a word often used by people of faith. It is an explanation for things that happen with no apparent cause…

  • Should we be pondering the idea of faith or maybe trust?

    Bird Droppings November 3, 2025Should we be pondering the idea of faith or maybe trust? “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered, or the ultimate direction of the process. But now the speed of change is accelerating logarithmically. It is apparent…

  • Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight.

    Bird Droppings October 6, 2025Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight. Today should have been the harvest moon, but the clouds covered it up. As I walked out in the morning, I noticed that it was not cold today. I kept thinking of a morning when a little more than a third of…

  • Like the spider web, all of life is connected and intertwined.

    Bird Droppings October 3, 2025Like the spider web, all of life is connected and intertwined. As I thought about the Sydney J. Harris passage below, I recall a walk one morning out to a quiet spot where I would meditate, and something hit me as I faced east towards the rising sun, the gossamer threads…

  • Taking small steps is a key component of patience

    Bird Droppings September 30, 2025 Taking small steps is a key component of patience “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great   ambitions.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How many times are we told “take your time”? So often in life, we are anxious to get the job finished or…

  • Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand

    Bird Droppings September 29, 2025 Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand Many years ago, I was sitting alongside a fence in a field far away from houses and people, and I watched a spider spin a web. We see webs all around, and I read there are thousands of spiders per acre in any…