The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Looking for the passion

    Bird Droppings August 18, 2011 Looking for the passion “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions; but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr. Eric Berne, The games people play In…

  • Finding our piece and or place

    Bird Droppings August 16, 2011 Finding our piece and or place “We are not all called to be great. But we are called to reach out our hands to our brothers and sisters, and to care for the earth in the time we are given” Kent Nerburn, Small Graces Many years ago when I lived…

  • Filtering into bottles

    Bird Droppings August 10, 2011 Filtering into bottles Starting back to school again today and sitting here on day one and thinking back. I remember how hard I was hit by the impact of No Child Left Behind so many years ago. I was testing or reading a test to students who within their IEP’s…

  • Children learn what they live and see

    Bird Droppings August 9, 2011 Children learn what they live and See I was sitting in my room at school last night from three till nearly seven for our annual open house and talking with various parents and students that came by. Several made comments about how their child loved my class and my ego…

  • trying to understand

    Bird Droppings August 8, 2011 Trying to understand As I went to school and such today it seemed a part of me was left home. I generally start each morning with writing, this has been a very relaxing part of my day and as I got up to start I was sort of out of…

  • Sailing off the edge and or thinking outside the box

    Bird Droppings August 6, 2011 Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of a box “I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family or nation, but…

  • Walking and Listening among the Cotton Woods

    Bird Droppings August 4, 2011 Walking and listening among the Cotton Woods I walked outside earlier as I took our infamous dog Lil Girl out for her morning constitutional. The sky was overcast this morning with a mist of rain falling and wisps of fog scattered about on the warm earth were visible. Over the…

  • Is it really adversity?

    Bird Droppings July 11, 2011 Is it really adversity? “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 I was working in the yard most of the day yesterday when I was not at a reptile…

  • Filtering into bottles

    Morning Bird Droppings July 8, 2011 Filtering into bottles “The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves…

  • Looking at the pathway ahead

    Bird Droppings June 28, 2011 Looking at the pathway ahead As I slowly get my brain in gear after a couple long weeks of Foxfire courses, philosophy of education reading and trying to catch up on my gardening I find I am almost in a fog. It has taken two days literally for my mind…