The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: meditation

  • What does it take for that light bulb to go on?

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2025What does it take for that light bulb to go on? It has been nearly nineteen years since my doctoral cohort at Georgia Southern ended, and we began the journey on our own. For a couple of semesters, I was a member of a new cohort at Piedmont College and wandering…

  • Bird Droppings April 22, 2025Getting ready to write a biography and doing some cooking “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and it’s a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” Russell Means…

  • Is the curriculum sacred or simply someone’s idea of what it should be?

    Bird Droppings April 15, 2025Is the curriculum sacred or simply someone’s idea of what it should be? My wife and I are talking about taking a few days’ hiatus to head to the South Carolina coast with no schedule and little baggage—just a spur-of-the-moment trip. I was thinking back to our last crazy trip, which…

  • Getting ready

    Bird Droppings March 20, 2025Getting ready “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and it’s a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” Russell Means I drove early this morning, before sunrise, in…