Bird Droppings November 19, 2012 Adversity is a bridge not a stop sign   “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   It was perhaps two days ago two years ago one of the teachers…

Bird Droppings November 16, 2012 Why not quietly pursue Silence?   I was standing in my back yard listening. There was silence. As I stood how easy is it to find fear and or solace in silence. Many horror movies over the years and of course books for those of us who still read feature…

Bird Droppings November 15, 2012 Can we mold our day and proceed in life?   Morning is a special time a beginning of sorts for each day. For me several aspects of taking our dog out, sitting down, writing and reading have in many ways become a significant part of my day. I walked out…

Bird Droppings November 14, 2012 Can we give more than one hundred percent?   It has been an interesting week and past weekend. As I started out trying to get perhaps more done that was humanly possible it still was nonstop and rather exciting.  Even though Georgia Tech has not had a great year in…

Bird Droppings November 13, 2012 Today is day one I remember nearly six years ago as we got closer to the last day in our old house it was actually appropriately to be the last day of the month. Sitting here in my class room thinking back early in the morning it is a new…

Bird Droppings November 12, 2012 There is something about creativity   I got up this morning later than normal being a school holiday. I ran an errand or two first thing and started in on repairing if I can our dishwasher. After reaching a point of needing to ponder I went to my writing table…

Bird Droppings November 7, 2012 Should it not be about being who we are?   It has been nearly eight years since I was directly involved in Foxfire teaching at Piedmont College. One of the Core Principles of the Foxfire Approach to Teaching is the relationship of the teacher to the students. As long as…

Bird Droppings November 6, 2012 Is there really friendship?   It has been nearly six years since I was meeting with our builder and realtor doing a walk-through of our soon to be new house. We are heading back to the country and away from traffic and constant human encroachment at least for the time…

Bird Droppings November 5, 2012 Why is individuality such a lonely journey?   I walked out about 1:30 AM this morning taking my westie for her constitutional and off in the pines that are within a hundred feet of my house, several hundred acres of dense pines, a barred owl was calling. I am used…

Bird Droppings November 4, 2012 Life is so much more than just living   “The peril we face today does not come from such differing philosophies of how to serve as stewards of the earth, but from the failure to exercise control over how we act upon those philosophies. If the preservation and sustenance of…