The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering

    Bird Droppings June 9, 2011 Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering I drove to north Georgia on Sunday and Tuesday and have been babysitting Charlie my grand daughter in between. I enjoy the drive up into the mountains always going part of the way on back roads. As I was sitting around yesterday evening my oldest…

  • John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Bird Droppings June 8, 2011 John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson It has been a few days since I wrote in the morning perhaps the summer laziness has come upon me although last night it I was sitting and wondering where the loud sound outside the bedroom window was coming from. I got home…

  • Walking agian in the morning

    Bird Droppings May 9, 2011 Walking again in the morning It is hard for me to describe the feeling of losing this aspect of the day. It has been now nearly eleven years since each morning I would get up and walk upwards of five miles before dawn. Many of those journeys were with a…

  • Pondering on mothers day about faith

    Bird Droppings May 8, 2011 Pondering on mothers day about faith For so many a Sunday morning brings dressing up and heading to a place of worship. Worship for most is a community event a gathering of like believers who sit and go through ritualistic undertakings in a prescribed manner and at the prescribed time…

  • Sometimes we get to close to the edge

    Bird Droppings April 19, 2011 Sometimes we get to close to the edge I recall taking groups hiking in North Georgia and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail dropping two hundred feet down looking over and nearly falling. Maybe they…

  • Perhaps my favorite store

    Bird Droppings April 11, 2011 Perhaps my favorite store It is the first time this year I needed my alarm to wake up in the morning. I am a bit out of my normal routine perhaps after a week of spring break. Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the…

  • Finding our piece or place in Life

    Bird Droppings March 25, 2011 Finding our piece and or place in Life I went out into the cold morning air seemed winter snuck back in last night the temperature was about forty degrees after feeling like springtime for several weeks now. The super moon is waning and about half is left and was on…

  • HAve we sold our souls?

    Bird Droppings March 18, 2011 Have we sold our souls? Morning is a special time for me a beginning is an easy way to say it. Today I went out a bit early from the house to gas up my wives car. As I drove back to the house an owl was sitting on the…

  • We need to do more than belong

    Bird Droppings March 10, 2011 We need to do more than just belong “Do more than belong; participate. Do more than care; help. Do more than believe; practice. Do more than be fair; be kind, do more than forgive; forget. Do more than dream; work.” William Arthur Ward As I sit here this morning responding…

  • Why be a teacher?

    Bird Droppings March 8, 2011 Why be a teacher I was talking with students yesterday about going into teaching and one of the students actually wanted to be a teacher. Along that line the Georgia Legislator is considering various ways to cut funding for teachers and with many counties cutting back on budgets and jobs…