The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Kent Nerburn

  • Wandering around today and nearly missing a moment with my grand daughter

    Bird Droppings June 16, 2011 Wandering about today and nearly missed a moment with my grand daughter “Until you have a son of your own you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense…

  • A buffalo snort in the dark

    Bird Droppings June 4, 2011 A buffalo snort in the dark “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” George Bernard…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Disipating embers can rekindle a fire

    Bird Droppings February 27, 2011 Dissipating embers can rekindle a fire Most mornings weather permitting I will sit out and spend a few moments meditating in the corner of our back yard currently over grown with local plant life and in bad need of a mowing. For several years I have used a bit of…

  • Wandering about

    Bird Droppings February 21, 2011 Wandering about I have been getting my cameras ready for spring. There are so many possibilities with various flowers blooming all about and baby ducks and geese soon at local lakes and ponds. However right now I have five new females fancy guppies and a gaudy male along with a…

  • Building sandcastles drip by drip

    Bird Droppings January 3, 2011 Building Sand castles drip by drip Back when I was going to Graduate School nearly every day and before switching to Internet classes and webct it took some getting used to going to school and then going to school. I was teaching from 7:20 – 3:00 students who have had…

  • What if truth prevailed?

    Bird Droppings October 6, 2010 What if Truth prevailed I started my morning as I do so many mornings walking out into the stillness of the hour but today with a chill in the air all was silent. Air conditioners busy through one of the hottest summers I have lived in Georgia now nearly forty…

  • Why do we not consider people first?

    Bird Droppings September 4, 2010 Why do we not consider people first? You would think that with a three day weekend I could get caught up do some writing and perhaps even get a bit of work done for school but unforeseen events always seem to crop up. Saturday was predominantly family time and a…

  • Please think about tomorrow

    Bird Droppings August 30, 2010 Please think about tomorrow I was sitting in my class room when one of my students asked would I sell an ear phone for a cell phone for twenty dollars. I responded probably not but I told them and directed them to the local Wal-Mart where they could buy one…