The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Life

  • It is the small pieces that seriously matter not how many presents

    Bird Droppings December 6, 2024It is the small pieces that seriously matter not how many presents I am about to be driving around to run some errands and read a holiday post or two on my new computer, an early Christmas present from my wife. One caught my attention arguing the idea of Santa’s gifts.…

  • Who would have thought that a buffalo snort in the dark could impact me twenty-five years later?

    Bird Droppings November 24, 2024 Who would have thought that a buffalo snort in the dark could impact me twenty-five years later? “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…

  • Perhaps, within ourselves, is the change we need?

    Bird Droppings November 7, 2024Perhaps, within ourselves, is the change we need? I have been away from my computer for a few minutes. Hopefully, I will hear back about my dissertation final review and defense date. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ending my procrastination. I am not complaining, but I enjoy the morning…

  • t is a new day, a new start, and always day one.

    Bird Droppings November 1, 2024It is a new day, a new start, and always day one. I am feeling old today; now that I am working on my seventh-fifth year of life, a cold front is coming in, and my bones are aching. Yesterday, I was thinking about savoring every minute; today, I am thinking…

  • Can we find answers outside our windows?

    Bird Droppings October 20, 2024 Can we find answers outside our windows? It had been a few years since we were at Pawleys Island, SC, when the largest-ever lottery drawing was about to occur. The frenzy of buying a ticket happened at every convenience store and lottery outlet. Just a few weeks ago, a repeat,…

  • Perhaps, within ourselves, is the change we need?

    Bird Droppings October 15, 2024Perhaps, within ourselves, is the change we need? I have been away from my computer for a few minutes. Hopefully, in the next few weeks, I will be hearing from my dissertation chair about defending my paper. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ending my procrastination. I am not complaining,…

  • Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need

    Bird Droppings November 14, 2018 Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need   I have not been away from my computer for some time finally emailing a ninety nine percent complete pre-prospectus to my committee chair. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ended my procrastination. I am not complaining but I enjoy the…

  • Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory

    Bird Droppings September 23, 2018 Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory   The anniversary of a day that will be a scar on our nation’s history has past. On September 15, 1963 an explosion tore through the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, it was on a Sunday. People…

  • Can we find real learning in the Kalahari Desert?

    Bird Droppings September 20, 2018 Can we find real learning in the Kalahari Desert?   Yesterday afternoon I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed…

  • Should children be left behind?

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2018 Should children be left behind?               “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in         respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It     is chosen and foreordained, and he only…