Bird Droppings November 19, 2014 Can we find enough data through observing to decide on our own? As I was driving to baby sit two of my grandkids last night by chance a beep on my Iphone and I looked at a conversation dealing with special needs children. I have been involved in special needs…

Bird Droppings November 18, 2014 Perhaps within ourselves is the change “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit I wandered out into one of the coldest mornings of the year with our new huskie puppy Timber. I made it about half…

Bird Droppings November 17, 2014 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 is…

Bird Droppings November 16, 2014 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 for me sharing words…

Bird Droppings November 14, 2014 Perhaps I had a vision walking in moonlight As I walked out in the morning cold today, the a little more than a third of a full moon’s glow lit the area still giving me a vivid view of all around. While only just a small part of the moon…

Bird Droppings November 13, 2014 Looking at a cloud in the darkness I am still warming my hands as this was the coldest morning of the fall to date. I went out to check my wife’s car and off in the pines a great horned owl called. I stood listening for several minutes focusing on…

Bird Droppings November 12, 2014 Today is day one or so I am told Feeling old today now that I working on my sixty sixth year and a cold front coming in, my bones are aching. I remember nearly eight years ago as we got closer to the last day in our old house it…

Bird Droppings November 11, 2014 I am always finding where community exists “I am sitting listening to Allman Brother’s Fillmore East CD on a Tuesday morning half a moon glaring outside. As I drove to school today I had several thoughts streaming through my head. How do two people see the same thing or read…

Bird Droppings November 10, 2014 Gratitude is action as well as words “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” Chief Seattle, 1854 Most mornings I am driving to school…

Bird Droppings November 9, 2014 It is not hard being color blind in a world that only sees black and white It has been nearly forty five years, actually more since I found out I was color blind. I had been in college at West Chester State College for my freshmen year back in 1967.…