The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: jesus

  • 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…

  • Bird Droppings March 22, 2025Wind in the trees Over the past weeks, several storms have come through the area. I Had a tree guy come out and take down some trees that were leaning or broken off. Just before I went to bed last night, according to the weather forecast, we were expected to get…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Reconciliation of trust

    Bird Droppings January 20, 2025Reconciliation of trust I came upstairs to look at my photos this morning and to write a morning Birddroppings. I thought back a couple of years to get sidetracked talking with my wife; she was headed to a funeral in Dublin, Georgia, for her aunt, who had just passed away. Her…

  • Life and its alternatives become more of an issue as each year goes by

    Bird Droppings January 19, 2025Life and its alternatives become more of an issue as each year goes by Morning has been a special time for me each day, a new beginning. Several aspects make it special. The first one is heading out to chase sunrise and listening to Carlos Nakai’s flute music. It is a…

  • The fragility and power of life

    Bird Droppings January 16, 2025 The fragility and power of life I was awakened early with a vivid dream this morning. I am also getting old and need to take a potty break. Hearing what the rain and a teenager, I assume tearing out of our subdivision about two in the morning, also did not…

  • We must try and care

    Bird Droppings January 12, 2025 We must try and care So far, for this year and the tail end of last year, all the snow, sleet, and ice predicted have shown up, and it’s cold, wet, and nasty. It has been unseasonably colder than usual, with scatterings of warm weather still only a few nights…

  • Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of the box in terms of learning

    Bird Droppings January 9, 2024 Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of the box in terms of learning I was thinking back to nearly twenty years when history was made, as a new president was sworn in, and one of my students came into class and asked to start working on his assignments.…

  • Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of the box

    Bird Droppings December 15, 2024 Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of the box I was thinking back to nearly fifteen years when history was made, as a new president was sworn in, and one of my students came into class and asked to start working on his assignments. I did not beg…