The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: faith

  • Bird Droppings May 26, 2025 My two dads are always on my mind and in my heart I was standing outside on this moonless night, gazing at the clouds sliding quietly in the night. A chorus of tree frogs and crickets kept me company in the dark. It’s coming up to summer, and the ambient…

  • Individuality can be a lonely journey for some of us, a lifelong pathway.

    Bird Droppings May 23, 2025Individuality can be a lonely journey for some of us, a lifelong pathway. It was fifteen years ago that I walked out about 1:30 AM this morning, taking our westie for her constitutional, and off in the pines that are within a hundred feet of our house, several hundred acres of…

  • Being reborn is simply listening with the heart

    Bird Droppings May 14, 2025 Being reborn is simply listening with the heart So often in life, we hear words and rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion, and then logically state a response. I was sitting in a meeting after talking with my principal about next year, and being a retired part-timer, I am sort…

  • Hunting for the right words on a spring morning

    Bird Droppings April 28, 2025Hunting for the right words on a spring morning “The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart, head, and hands.” Robert M. Pirsig, American author Whether we are trying to offer a few words of condolence to friends whose loved ones have passed away or trying to…

  • April 23, 2025Maybe one day I will find an answer.  “In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tarawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast and that from them, and the stars…

  • Occasionally, we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke, perhaps before it is too late

    Bird Droppings April 8, 2025Occasionally, we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke, perhaps before it is too late Thinking back to my biology teaching days, high school students always ask questions about religion as we get into evolution. Occasionally, I get someone who wants to prove a point. A young lady…

  • Can we find Truth in an untruthful world?

    Bird Droppings March 27, 2025Can we find Truth in an untruthful world? For the third or fourth time, I reread “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women” by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a Native American Activist, author, lecturer, and a several-time…

  • Children are being taught as they live.

    Bird Droppings March 8, 2025Children are being taught as they live. It is a beautiful spring day outside and quiet after a crazy couple of days of severe weather. It seems the solitude of the country has changed rapidly over the past years. A developer bought our subdivision and has put up thirty more houses.…

  • Religion is what you make of it.

    Bird Droppings March 4, 2025Religion is what you make of it. It is hard to explain the relief after defending my dissertation yesterday. I am still somewhat in shock. However, you can now officially call me docbird. My dad was called Doc in the Navy as he was the medical officer for the ship he…

  • We need LOVE

    Bird Droppings March 3, 2025We need LOVE Sometimes we so easily use the word love. It gets used daily by many folks, yet do we truly have any conception of what we speak. I was just in a conversation, and the word love came up, and I responded that we each have our understanding and…