The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Love

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Solitude is within one’s soul and heart.

    Bird Droppings September 16, 2025 Solitude is within one’s soul and heart. On most mornings, I venture out to take photos of the sunrise animals I encounter and old buildings I find along the way. I write about synchronicity daily and often comment on the events in my life that are synchronous. This morning, my…

  • Just an observation, or am I seeing something totally different than you 

    Bird Droppings September 14, 2025Just an observation, or am I seeing something totally different than you  “I am that I am”. I read that somewhere many years ago, a simple definition of someone. As I look at its simplicity, are we not all who we are? I grew up in a middle-class family first in…

  • Bird Droppings September 7, 2025An epiphany of sorts on a moonlit September morning  I spent the better part of yesterday avoiding any direction, so intent on the moment I was missing cues to the past and future. It was five years ago that our neighborhood changed. On top of everything, I was worn out from…

  • Can we use the word sacred truthfully?

    Bird Droppings August 27, 2025Can we use the word sacred truthfully? “Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom I have been a student and…

  • I am told there is a reason.

    Bird Droppings August 18, 2025 I am told there is a reason. Early today, I should not get into disagreements on Covid, and I try to avoid it. I have strong feelings about vaccines, being a polio survivor, and I mentioned I was one of the lucky ones who survived. I started back to teaching.…

  • Reconciling the importance of the present, past, and future to find balance

    Bird Droppings August 11, 2025 Reconciling the importance of the present, past, and future to find balance I spent the better part of yesterday going to a reptile show with Pat to see our son and his wife and their exhibit. On Saturday, I played with grandkids and worked around the house, avoiding my direction,…