Bird Droppings July 17, 2014 Why is it so hard listening to a child? Sitting here by myself writing before the sunrises and reminiscing I recall listening to some children. It has been some time since I was sitting in my class room on C-Hall when a friend came by with her baby brother about…

Bird Droppings July 16, 2014 Let’s change NCLB to OCAT today! I woke up like most other days and as you get older each day is a prize and for some reason sat at my computer pondering much longer than normal. I was looking at some comments and reviewing a post I had made the…

Bird Droppings July 15, 2014 How do we know on a cloudy day if the moon is setting or the sun is rising? I left the house relatively early to get gas for my wife’s car and since staying at home today to work on my writing a bottle of grapefruit cranberry juice. My days…

Bird Droppings July 14, 2014 Is not every day a good day? Recently I had the great privilege of spending some time with some very dear friends. These are people I have known for many years. Over the past few weekends I have driven nearly eight hundred miles on various always exciting excursions. There were…

Bird Droppings July 11, 2014 High Stakes Testing should we even be doing it? Six years ago the staff at our high school spent several months getting ready for a peer review, actually it is called a GAPPS Review. About the same time you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and…

Bird Droppings July 10, 2014 Can I teach myself or am I even allowed? “There is then, nothing final about a logical rendering of experience. Its value is not contained in itself; its significance is that of standpoint, outlook, and method. It intervenes between the more casual, tentative, and roundabout experiences of the past, and…

Bird Droppings July 9, 2014 Dodging rain drops Georgia has been considerably wetter this summer than the last at least at my house. The surprise thunderstorms while often severe have kept most trees green and vegetation lush in the back yard. I have been watering our flowers and of course with fertilizer they are growing…

Bird Droppings July 8, 2014 Do children deserve more? I drove up to North Georgia numerous times the past few weeks, drove to middles Georgia to visit with a good friend a former principal, my grandson had his first birthday, all helped throw my routine out the window the past week. So adding to this…

Bird Droppings July 7, 2014 I wonder if you can get moon burn? It was a quiet and crazy evening at the Bird Nest as we returned from a weekend in the mountains to a one year old birthday party of our grandson. Last night just before heading in, I walked out on the back…

Bird Droppings July 6, 2014 Can we be about healing? “People cannot know how sacred power, or medicine truly works, bit almost every Native American knows something of its ways. Often seen as a mysterious force that is fluid, transmissible and important malleable, sacred power can be manipulated by those who possess it – either…