Bird Droppings August 21, 2012 Can we make 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  …

Bird Droppings August 20, 2012 Why should we listen more closely?               I was out in the back yard walking the dog, weeding and watering my herb garden when a commotion caught my attention last evening. Three crows were chasing a red tailed hawk. One on one the hawk would be able to dispatch…

Bird Droppings August 19, 2012 Why does it take courage to teach?               It has been several years’ back a tradition was started in my home town of Coatesville Pennsylvania. I recall an email about an that event, one of the members of our high school graduating class lost his daughter to cancer a…

Bird Droppings August 18, 2012 I was wondering about pondering today?   My daughter in-law has lost two loved ones in the past few weeks and while I did not really know either of her relatives that well, it impacts me with her marriage to our son and with her daughter our granddaughter. I was…

Bird Droppings August 17, 2012 I am always seeking something?   Each day as I sit down I wonder what will transpire as I begin to think about what I will write about today. There is a seeking, a yearning to find and to answer questions of my own and others. On an occasion, sometimes,…

Bird Droppings August 19, 2009 Searching for ideals   So often in life we are faced with choices which determine how we can face the day and or how we interact with the events surrounding us. On the news a phone cam videoed a man being shot by police. The video was grainy and what…

Bird Droppings August 15, 2012 What is gratitude?   As I do so often searching the book shelves at my local Barnes and Nobles or Borders. I found a few books over the past few trips; two books are by J. T. And William Garrett and focus on Cherokee medicine and spirituality and the other…

Bird Droppings August 14, 2012 Finding our piece and or place   “We are not all called to be great. But we are called to reach out our hands to our brothers and sisters, and to care for the earth in the time we are given” Kent Nerburn, Small Graces   Many years ago walking…

Bird Droppings August 13, 2012 It is more than just wanting to?   “I want to say one other challenge that we face is simply that we must find an alternative to war and bloodshed. Anyone who feels, and there are still a lot of people who feel that way, that war can solve the…

Bird Droppings August 10, 2012 How hard is it to understand war and teaching?   “Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It’s very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are…