The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Frank Bird III

  • Can we find answers?

    Bird Droppings April 6, 2011 Can we find answers? Several years ago I would have said there were answers to most any question that could be asked. Today sitting here I wonder granted first you have to ask what is the question or questions but I have a different attitude now sort of one that…

  • Listening to silence

    Bird Droppings April 3-5, 2011 Listening to silence I have been lazy these first few days of Spring Break sitting in my yard as the moon is nearly gone listening in silence to what was about me. I was trying to hear the minutest of sounds perhaps the echoes of dogs in neighborhoods a distance…

  • Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum

    Bird Droppings April 1, 2011 Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum There is something about the first light on a spring morning and trying to discern how many different birds are singing and calling back and forth waking up. Today was a rough one seems my arthritis in my shoulders is acting up and it…

  • Sacredness and finding Foxfire in the KAlihari

    Bird Droppings March 31, 2011 Sacredness and finding Foxfire in the Kalahari I have known about Foxfire for nearly forty years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1973 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to teaching and attended…

  • Are we going in the right direction?

    Bird Droppings March 30, 2011 Are we going in the right direction? “I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. I believe that the school must represent present life-life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in…

  • Religion is what you make of it

    Bird Droppings March 29, 2011 Religion is what you make of it “A poor devotee points to the sky and says, ‘God is up there.’ An average devotee says, ‘God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master.’ The best devotee says, ‘God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.’” Ramakrishna…

  • A beginning from an end

    Bird Droppings March 28, 2011 A beginning from an end “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” Albert Einstein Over the past two days…

  • We need LOVE

    Bird Droppings March 27, 2011 We need LOVE Sometimes we so easily use the word love. It gets used daily by many folks and yet do we truly have any conception of what it is we speak. I was just in a conversation and the word love came up, I responded how we each have…

  • Finding our piece or place in Life

    Bird Droppings March 25, 2011 Finding our piece and or place in Life I went out into the cold morning air seemed winter snuck back in last night the temperature was about forty degrees after feeling like springtime for several weeks now. The super moon is waning and about half is left and was on…

  • All in a name

    Bird Droppings March 24, 2011 All in a name On February 3, 2003 I officially started titling my daily emailing and blogging, Bird Droppings. I went back in my files and pulled up a few old thoughts and ideas. As I was reading the local paper today a street poll was included asking locals about…