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Teaching today is tying a knot with only one hand.
Bird Droppings October 8, 2025Teaching today is tying a knot with only one hand. It was a Saturday morning a few years back, and no one else was up but me. I was about to go out and wander in the darkness for a bit, and remembered the cast on my leg. I did stay…
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Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight.
Bird Droppings October 6, 2025Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight. Today should have been the harvest moon, but the clouds covered it up. As I walked out in the morning, I noticed that it was not cold today. I kept thinking of a morning when a little more than a third of…
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Like the spider web, all of life is connected and intertwined.
Bird Droppings October 3, 2025Like the spider web, all of life is connected and intertwined. As I thought about the Sydney J. Harris passage below, I recall a walk one morning out to a quiet spot where I would meditate, and something hit me as I faced east towards the rising sun, the gossamer threads…
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Taking small steps is a key component of patience
Bird Droppings September 30, 2025 Taking small steps is a key component of patience “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How many times are we told “take your time”? So often in life, we are anxious to get the job finished or…
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Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand
Bird Droppings September 29, 2025 Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand Many years ago, I was sitting alongside a fence in a field far away from houses and people, and I watched a spider spin a web. We see webs all around, and I read there are thousands of spiders per acre in any…
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Should I be a wolf or a dog in education?
Bird Droppings September 26, 2025 Should I be a wolf or a dog in education? Considering the current news and political turmoil, I recalled a trip to the Atlanta Zoo. An older man approached me as I walked up the hill at the Zoo. I had never met this man previously and hoped never to…
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Is synchronicity a focal point on the pathway during our life experiences?
Bird Droppings September 24, 2025 Is synchronicity a focal point on the pathway during our life experiences? Every morning, if possible, I look for a sunrise, driving out or walking depending on where I am at the time. In the past ten years, I have only missed a few. Today, the sky was beautiful, and…
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I was listening to the stillness of the morning and the sunrise, and sometimes, we need a window rather than a mirror.
Bird Droppings September 23, 2025I was listening to the stillness of the morning and the sunrise, and sometimes, we need a window rather than a mirror. I was driving alone this morning, as I do often, trying to get a few photos of the sunrise. Today, it was a beautiful day. The ambient temperature is…
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Listening to a five-note flute and thinking about friends and the word normal
Bird Droppings September 22, 2025 Listening to a five-note flute and thinking about friends and the word normal I find it hard to believe it is fall, although you can feel it in the air. The chill perhaps got me thinking back about eight years ago, I was fishing with my grandson at the Atlanta…
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Why are we not seeking peace?
Bird Droppings September 17, 2025Why are we not seeking peace? “In this week of great destruction, we must each choose what road we are to walk and live. The road of destruction is war; it has always been so. The road of creation is deeper and more complicated; it has always involved forgiveness, love, light,…
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The daily meanderings of a teacher 