The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: mental-health

  • Placing each puzzle piece one at a time: Every puzzle in life has a solution if can figure out the pieces.

    Bird Droppings July 15, 2026Placing each puzzle piece one at a time: Every puzzle in life has a solution if can figure out the pieces. “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…

  • Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark?

    Bird Droppings June 14, 2026Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark? “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to…

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

    Bird Droppings June 11, 2026What does it take for that light bulb to go on? It has been nearly twenty 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…

  • The impact of synchronicity, or perhaps you could say, in my life, the saga of synchronicity

    Bird Droppings June 4, 2026The impact of synchronicity, or perhaps you could say, in my life, the saga of synchronicity Today in my morning sojourn looking for a sunrise, I drove by a spot I have passed by 5,000 times at least and never noticed. Alongside a red barn, a red wheelbarrow with petunias in…

  • Don’t crossword puzzles take some time?

    Bird Droppings June 3, 2026Don’t crossword puzzles take some time? Towards the end of teaching my last college history class, one of my students was working on an assignment and had to define “bias”. She was unsure which definition was correct and asked for my opinion. I explained that historical bias is that of the…

  • Should we even consider ignorance, or I could say lack of experience, a part of the journey?

    I wrote this over a year ago, and it still seems very pertinent today, so I am sharing it again with a few changes. Cheryl Petersen shared a thought I just saw this morning.Thanks for sharing the thoughts passing through your mind. Ignorance can be tied to human knowledge, what we know or don’t know.…

  • What do we miss as we move through life?

    Bird Droppings May 20, 2026What do we miss as we move through life? All Along the Watchtower There must be some way out of here,Said the Joker to the thief,There’s too much confusion,I can’t get any relief.Businessmen, they drink my wine,Plowmen dig my earth,None of them along the lineKnow what any of it is worth.…

  • There may be side roads in life.

    Bird Droppings May 3, 2026There may be side roads in life. I wandered about a bit this morning, running errands and trying to catch up on a few things. As I went from one errand to the next, it seemed as if ideas were coming a bit too quickly; maybe I am operating on little…

  • POTENTIAL is only a word unless applied

    Bird Droppings April 27, 2026POTENTIAL is only a word unless applied “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft, wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and magically merged into…

  • Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

    Bird Droppings April 20, 2026Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Over a few days, we have gone from summer to winter, back to spring, with very definitive fronts flying by, and it all ended with rainbows. On several occasions, there are twin rainbows. On the other hand, my sunrises…