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Should we be kissing frogs on a chilly, wet morning granted it could be a poison arrow dart frog and regardless it is still hard.
Bird Droppings October 18, 2025Should we be kissing frogs on a chilly, wet morning granted it could be a poison arrow dart frog and regardless it is still hard. It was on the chilly side and wet here in northeast Georgia, with nighttime temperatures hanging in the low sixties. However, a rumor of a nice…
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I was listening to the stillness of the morning and the sunrise, and sometimes, we need a window rather than a mirror.
Bird Droppings September 23, 2025I was listening to the stillness of the morning and the sunrise, and sometimes, we need a window rather than a mirror. I was driving alone this morning, as I do often, trying to get a few photos of the sunrise. Today, it was a beautiful day. The ambient temperature is…
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I am told there is a reason.
Bird Droppings August 18, 2025 I am told there is a reason. Early today, I should not get into disagreements on Covid, and I try to avoid it. I have strong feelings about vaccines, being a polio survivor, and I mentioned I was one of the lucky ones who survived. I started back to teaching.…
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Should we even consider ignorance, or I could say lack of experience, a part of the journey?
Bird Droppings July 27, 2025 Should we even consider ignorance, or I could say lack of experience, a part of the journey? Over the past few days, I have been looking at or pondering the idea of experiences and how many people do not have experiences, for example, in comparison to my own. I have…
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The impact of synchronicity, or perhaps you could say, in my life, the saga of synchronicity
Bird Droppings July 24, 2025The impact of synchronicity, or perhaps you could say, in my life, the saga of synchronicity I’m sitting in my backyard beside my medicine circle. We’ve got two wind chimes, and every once in a while, the chimes will sound as the breeze picks up. I just walked through my yard…
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I am told there is a purpose in life.
Bird Droppings July 14, 2025 I am told there is a purpose in life. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” Robert Byrne I often wonder about this idea, as have so many before me and will after I am gone. Philosophers wonder, and wise men ponder, is their purpose a reason for…
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The synchronicity saga and or the saga of synchronicity
Bird Droppings July 11, 2025The synchronicity saga and or the saga of synchronicity I often write of coincidence; it may seem boring to some. It is a never-ending saga of special moments, one after the other. During a college graduate class, we discussed science and measuring data. Intuition and coincidence, it seems, are difficult commodities…
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Why is experience the greatest teacher?
Bird Droppings July 7, 2025Why is experience the greatest teacher? “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy What a way to start with a line from a fiction…
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Constructivism, Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Dewey, and others
Bird Droppings May 31, 2025 Constructivism, Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Dewey, and others Friday, five years ago, I had a heart pacemaker installed. It will be charged for eight to ten years, and I feel considerably better. My heart rate had been going as low as thirty-six and fluctuating throughout the day. I was constantly fatigued…
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Searching for a flower, the butterfly pea (Clitoria marina), or is it gone now
Bird Droppings May 7, 2025Searching for a flower, the butterfly pea (Clitoria marina), or is it gone now Interestingly, I had two thoughts earlier in the week as I started the day that made me think of them. One I heard on the radio was that I was going to get some gas in my…
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The daily meanderings of a teacher 