The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Native American

  • Wondering why, on a Thursday morning, I’m taking a few photos of a very foggy sunrise

    Bird Droppings November 20, 2025Wondering why, on a Thursday morning, I’m taking a few photos of a very foggy sunrise I watched the debate roughly five years ago from our condo on Pawleys Island. My wife and I escaped for a long weekend. It was to give her a break from a hectic clinic schedule…

  • Wondering why, on a Tuesday morning, I am taking a few photos of a very foggy sunrise

    Bird Droppings October 28, 2025Wondering why, on a Tuesday morning, I am taking a few photos of a very foggy sunrise I watched the debate roughly five years ago from our condo on Pawleys Island. My wife and I escaped for a long weekend. It was to give her a break from a hectic clinic…

  • Wondering why, on a Monday morning, and taking a few photos of a very foggy sunrise

    Bird Droppings November 11, 2024Wondering why, on a Monday morning, and taking a few photos of a very foggy sunrise I watched the debate roughly four years ago from our condo on Pawleys Island. My wife and I escaped for a long weekend. It was to give her a break from a hectic clinic schedule…

  • So many thoughts for one day, including CRT which may or may not be a good topic

    Bird Droppings November 3, 2024So many thoughts for one day, including CRT which may or may not be a good topic A Facebook post yesterday caught my attention. The reference was about critical race theory or CRT. How public schools were indoctrinating students and parents should place their children in private schools or home school.…

  • Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need

    Bird Droppings November 14, 2018 Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need   I have not been away from my computer for some time finally emailing a ninety nine percent complete pre-prospectus to my committee chair. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ended my procrastination. I am not complaining but I enjoy the…

  • Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory

    Bird Droppings September 23, 2018 Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory   The anniversary of a day that will be a scar on our nation’s history has past. On September 15, 1963 an explosion tore through the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, it was on a Sunday. People…

  • Can we find real learning in the Kalahari Desert?

    Bird Droppings September 20, 2018 Can we find real learning in the Kalahari Desert?   Yesterday afternoon I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed…

  • Should children be left behind?

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2018 Should children be left behind?               “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in         respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It     is chosen and foreordained, and he only…

  • Do we teach or are we taught, a great question?

    Bird Droppings August 2, 2018 Do we teach or are we taught, a great question?   “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein   Andrea Teader does Podcasts, I happened upon one while sitting in my doctor’s office looking up storytelling on the internet. She started her Podcast, The…

  • Why is it hard to think about compassion?

    Bird Dropping August 1, 2018 Why is it hard to think about compassion?   Almost six years ago I was quietly sitting in a hotel room in South Carolina it was still dark outside and it was odd not being at school. I so seldom missed a day of school. My middle son and his…