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…

Bird Dropping November 2, 2012 Why is it hard to think about compassion?   It is quiet sitting in a hotel room in South Carolina still dark outside and odd not being at school on a Friday I so seldom miss a day of school. My middle son and his wife moved yesterday from SC…

Bird Droppings November 1, 2012 I do wonder about getting older?   “Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain   I find myself using age to my advantage when the little girl at the register at Kroger asked for senior citizenship or not. I carry…

Bird Droppings October 31, 2012 Can we use intuition? I mentioned to a fellow teacher I can tell when a child has issues most of the time after observing a few minutes and listening. Granted observations are part of most evaluations but I was referring to an intuitive aspect of observation. Something we learn perhaps…

Bird Droppings October 30, 2012 Why would some rather send a photo than write?   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley   In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was Brave…

Bird Droppings October 29, 2012 How difficult is it having a heart?   It is chilly outside in Georgia temperatures are supposed to get near almost to freezing but not quite, high forties but one of coldest days so far this fall. We have still a week or two till we are off from school…

Bird Droppings October 27, 2012 It takes more than one strand to make a rope   “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.”Faith Baldwin   Each day as I talk to my students I try and…