The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Mother Teresa

  • We must try and care

    Bird Droppings January 12, 2025 We must try and care So far, for this year and the tail end of last year, all the snow, sleet, and ice predicted have shown up, and it’s cold, wet, and nasty. It has been unseasonably colder than usual, with scatterings of warm weather still only a few nights…

  • Gratitude is action as well as words

    Bird Droppings November 11, 2011 Gratitude is action as well as words Most mornings I am driving to school about four thirty or so in the morning but today with Veterans Day as a holiday I got to relax till maybe five or so. Today my wife had scheduled a medical procedure and we were…

  • It is not about asking for but giving thanks

    Bird Droppings August 17, 2011 It is not asking for but giving thanks As I do so often searching the book shelves at my local Barnes and Nobles or Borders, soon to be no more. I found a few books over the past weekend. Two of the books are by J. T. And William Garrett…

  • Is it really adversity?

    Bird Droppings July 11, 2011 Is it really adversity? “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” Robert Fulghum I was working in the yard most of the day yesterday when I was not at a reptile…

  • Walking agian in the morning

    Bird Droppings May 9, 2011 Walking again in the morning It is hard for me to describe the feeling of losing this aspect of the day. It has been now nearly eleven years since each morning I would get up and walk upwards of five miles before dawn. Many of those journeys were with a…