Bird Droppings April 5, 2012 Finding Soul in looking at education   There is something about the first light on a spring morning and trying to discern how many different birds are singing and calling back and forth waking up. Today was a rough one seems my arthritis in my shoulders is acting up and…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2012 Listening for nature’s call   Lately as I venture out in the wee hours of the morning whip o wills are calling. It has been a few years since I heard them with such regularity. They seem to start after midnight and go till nearly dawn. With a dense stand…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2012 Finding where community exists   As I approached the end of my doctorial course work I was involved in a class on educational ethics which featured nine texts all of which had an under lying current of caring and relationships as keys to education or I should say to successful…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2012 A song of the morning   There is a time each day when bird’s first start singing it is generally just before the sun begins to come up. First one and then another start in and soon birds can be heard throughout the trees. I stood trying to focus on…

Bird Droppings April 1, 2010 Seeking peace             Often when sitting and thinking on a clear spring day a bit later than I normally sit down to write I would postpone and maybe come back tomorrow procrastinate is a good word. But I actually had a great excuse my granddaughter is napping nearby and we…

Bird Droppings March 31, 2012 Looking for reasons   “Come; let us put our minds together to see what kind of life we can create for our children.” Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux   Nearly eleven years has passed since I did a research paper on causes of various emotional issues with children. When I first…

Bird Droppings March 30, 2012 Are we going in the right direction?             Sometimes when I start my day I have no real understanding of the direction and or course of my day. I walked out into a dark morning lit with stars only and knowing somewhere hidden was a moon soon to be showing.…

Bird Droppings March 29, 2012 Can we change our direction or pathway?   Perhaps I spend too much time pondering and sorting through the metaphysics of life actually I have a doctorate in metaphysics somewhere on my wall along with one in theology and now trying to sort through and finish a dissertation on the…

Bird Droppings March 28, 2012 Thinking back to each piece of the puzzle   Officially spring is here and around here daffodils are finishing up and most flowering trees are near full bloom which of course inGeorgiameans voracious amounts of pine pollen, everything is yellow between rains. While cloudy this morning the air is slightly…

Bird Droppings March 27, 2012 A morning meandering here and there   Sitting in my classroom which in many ways for me is a sanctuary away from the hustle and bustle of reality I wonder as I sit writing pondering the day ahead. I sit listening to the haunting notes of R. Carlos Nakai a…