The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: faith

  • Being reborn is listening and seeing with our heart.

    Bird Droppings August 13, 2025 Being reborn is listening and seeing with our heart. So often in life, we hear words, rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion, and then logically state a response. I returned to a conversation discussing existentialism with my granddaughter one night nearly twelve years ago as she cooed and babbled, trying…

  • Wind in the trees

    Bird Droppings August 9, 2025Wind in the trees Over the past weeks, we have had nearly ten inches of rain, and storms have come through the area. Just before I went to bed a few nights ago, we were to get another in the morning; now, it is clear through Sunday. Several times, a few…

  • I find myself lately asking. How do we know if we are still human?

    Bird Droppings July 25, 2025I find myself lately asking. How do we know if we are still human? Perhaps it is from growing up in a situation where we were daily aware of special needs children and adults from the birth of my younger brother till his passing almost twenty years ago. Those in my…

  • Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

    Bird Droppings July 20, 2025Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Over a few days, storms passed through quickly, very definitive fronts flying by, and all ending with rainbows. On several occasions, twin rainbows. On the other hand, my sunrises have been off numerous clouds block the sun and offer…

  • Why do we wish, wonder, and wait?

    Bird Droppings July 9, 2025 Why do we wish, wonder, and wait? “Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.” William Davenant It has been nearly twenty years since we moved in and found ourselves in this house.  I wasn’t sure where to start. Several ideas have been running through my mind…

  • How capable do we need to be?

    Bird Droppings July 8, 2025 How capable do we need to be? What a contrast to only a few weeks ago, as the sun was hiding, I went out in the wee hours with a hazy sky. A gentle wind blew, wind chimes ringing peacefully, and frogs chirping in the pines and oak trees. I…

  • Finding Soul in looking at the Curriculum, or can I get a nickel’s worth of cheese, please.

    Bird Droppings July 4, 2025Finding Soul in looking at the Curriculum, or can I get a nickel’s worth of cheese, please. I interviewed for a part-time teaching position yesterday and then had lunch with a fellow teacher and friend from the last school I taught in. After driving home, I had many thoughts about education.…

  • How do we know we have grown up?

    Bird Droppings June 27, 2025How do we know we have grown up? “The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.” Alden Nowlan Earlier this week, a former student posted a simple line…

  • Should we be pondering the idea of faith?

    Bird Droppings June 9, 2015Should we be pondering the idea of faith? I have been indirectly involved in several discussions lately involving the word faith. So I did a bit of research and thinking. “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered,…

  • Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

    Bird Droppings June 16, 2022Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu After returning from taking pictures, I walked into the house after running a few errands and sat down to write. I will assume retirement will not be as tense and hectic as my first day teaching high school on September…