The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Frank Bird III

  • Interconnected

    Bird Droppings November 7, 2011 Interconnected “I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.” Coleman Cox Over the past eleven years I have attended maybe thousands of sporting and or other school events. Some were entertaining and other exciting as students that I knew…

  • Integrity is it only a word

    Bird Droppings November 6, 2011 Integrity is it only a word “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” Oprah Winfrey I am sure there are many things and events we will never hear about that Oprah has done and or been involved with.…

  • 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

    Bird Droppings November 4, 2011 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu I began the day thinking back to a song one of my students chose to write about several years ago, Live like you were dying by Tim McGraw. The assignment was to pick a favorite song and find the lyrics then explain…

  • Turning an ugly face jug

    Bird Droppings November 3, 2011 Turning an ugly face jug It has been a few years since the last time I talked with and watched the late Cleater Meadors turn a jug on the potter’s wheel at Mossy Creek Arts and Crafts fair in Perry Georgia. A simple lump of clay in a skilled artist’s…

  • The Day after

    Bird Droppings November 2, 2011 The Day after “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain I find myself using age to my advantage when the little girl at the register at Kroger asked for senior citizenship or not. I carry my AARP card with pride…

  • What could be more sacred than life itself?

    Bird Droppings November 1, 2011 What could be more sacred than life itself? Perhaps having been born on All Saints Day in St. Joseph’s Hospital gives me a better insight into the sacred than most normal folk. Of course then I have to consider that soon after I was born the Church dropped All Saints…

  • It takes more than one strand to make a rope

    Bird Droppings October 28, 2011 It takes more than one strand to make a rope “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.” Faith Baldwin Each day as I talk to my students I try and set…

  • Having a heart

    Bird Droppings October 26, 2011 Having a heart It is chilly out in northeast Georgia with evening temperatures still hanging in the high forties or low fifties but rumor of a near frost hanging out there has most of us gardeners bringing plants in. We have still a couple weeks till we are off from…

  • Who is responsible?

    Bird Droppings October 25, 2011 Who is responsible? Several weeks ago I was involved in a debate of sorts on the issue of public versus private education; it circled around and about really going not too far. Just a few days ago I picked up our local paper and a letter to the editor caught…

  • An eceltic morning

    Bird Droppings October 24, 2011 An eclectic morning Over the past week of vacation I was discussing with several friends, The DaVinci Code and other philosophical diversions and fearing death as a basis for religion came up somehow. “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die…