The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Frank Bird III

  • Working on a wedding

    Bird Droppings August 17, 2010 Working on a wedding Nearly two years ago I performed a wedding service for one of my sons close friends. As I was pulling together material for a short sermon and discussion I found several pieces from many years ago. As I thought this morning and walked out just before…

  • Trying to Succeed!

    Bird Droppings August 16, 2010 Trying to succeed! “Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.” Michael Eisner I wonder when a multibillionaire makes a statement like that how much meaning is in it. However as I read over the statement there…

  • Trying to find topsoil midst an erosion of soul

    Bird Droppings August 15, 2010 Trying to find topsoil midst an erosion of soul “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” Simone Weil The need for roots, I saw this idea earlier as I web surfed thinking and pondering this morning or perhaps as I was…

  • Experience is the best teacher

    Bird Droppings August 14, 2010 Experience is the greatest teacher “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy What a way to start with a line from a fiction…

  • School is near can I make a difference?

    Bird Droppings August 13, 2010 School is near can I make a difference? “There is wisdom to be found in examining differences such as between ‘morality’ and ‘moralizing.’ Nouns are treated as completed statues lined up on the top shelves of a person’s character. Verbs are active, no less demanding but requiring constant engagement. They…

  • Thinking of others

    Bird Droppings August 10, 2010 Thinking of Others “I think that empathy is important not only as a means of enhancing compassion, but I think that generally speaking when dealing with others on any level, if you are having difficulties, its extremely helpful to be able and try and put yourself in the other persons…

  • Ognorance versus the journey

    Bird Droppings August 9, 2010 Ignorance versus the journey “If I want to justify my existence, and continue to be obsessed with the notion that I’ve got to do something for humanity — well, teaching ought to quell that obsession — and if I can ever get around to an intelligent view of matters, intelligent…

  • Trying to find peace

    Bird Droppings August 8, 2010 Trying to find peace Earlier today I was sitting in my reading area and the concept of a just war popped up and how we will be fighting the “Just War” for ever. That concerns me as a father and as a human being. I was looking at how we…