The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Native American

  • Looking to nature for answers

    Bird Droppings December 6, 2012 Looking to Nature for answers   As I read and pondered a world engrossed with money and how we can spend money. I wonder if perhaps some of the thinking that is bringing so many American Indians back to their more traditional world views has merit. I was beginning to…

  • A new life coming

    Bird Droppings December 3, 2012 A new life coming Resurrection By Susan Thomas Underwood The universe is energy in constant motion. There are ebbs and flows; Outcomes and income, And change…… Always change.   The physical world reflects this motion In the cycles of life, There is spring and fall, winter and summer, Birth and…

  • Listening to a philosopher

    Bird Droppings November 30, 2012 Listening to a philosopher A beautiful sky this morning as I walked out and actually not too cold which is surprising as the sky while filled with clouds was clear. A moon reflecting across from the west is lighting up the sky and white billowing clouds presented a surreal picture…

  • Observation is a skill therefore observing is learned

    Bird Droppings November 29, 2012 Observation is a skill and therefore observing is learned   “I do not write from mythology when I reflect upon Native American spirituality in this book. In my own opinion, mythology leads to superstition; and superstition has proved fatally destruction to many millions down through time. It is ironic, then…

  • Some will see a tapestry as a spider spins others a cobweb

    Bird Droppings November 28, 2012 Some will see a tapestry as a spider spins others a cobweb   “For certain fortunate people there is something that transcends all classifications of behavior, and that is awareness, something which rises from the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than…

  • Can we really see while looking?

    Bird Droppings November 25, 2012 Can we really see while looking?   “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)   It has been several weeks now that I have been fighting a tough cold and this week bronchitis so I…

  • Should children be left behind?

    Bird Droppings November 24, 2012 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 holds the key…

  • Families and Friends

    Bird Droppings November 23, 2012 Families and Friends   The holidays are getting here soon and this semester is drawing to an end or perhaps a beginning as we get closer to the start of a new semester at school. We were one of a few schools that have a week off for Thanksgiving and…

  • Determining what it is we need to know

    Bird Droppings November 21, 2012 Determining what it is we need to learn   “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It…

  • Can we listen through our heart?

    Bird Droppings November 20, 2012 Can we listen through our heart?   It has been several years since found on my many excursions to Barnes and Nobles a small book that I would like to share some passages from. I found many of the thoughts and passages to be of significance and enjoy sharing words…