Bird Droppings September 15, 2015 Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark? “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on…

Bird Droppings September 14, 2015 I have found that real forgiveness is difficult work “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi I spent the morning just about two years ago on a field tip of sorts for a graduate school class. We visited the MLK Jr. Memorial Center…

Bird Droppings September 11, 2015 Why can we not really get a handle on this day? I start with a word I am sitting here making up ponderingerest. Perhaps a good definition is that there is far too much to ponder today, it is a ponderingerest day. In 1938 sixty six percent of the world’s…

Bird Droppings September 10, 2015 So much difference in people’s perceptions For some people Friday the thirteenth is a day of foreboding and others it is simply another sunrise and sunset. European culture brought the foreboding element of this day to the Americas. Some argue it has metaphysical properties and is not just the day…

Bird Droppings September 9, 2015 Checking the toes for mittens It has been some time since one of my granddaughters was showing off her new hat and mittens. It was quite a sight clad in a t-shirt, diaper, mittens and ski cap that looked like a penguin she was showing off for us. Finally she…

Bird Droppings September 8, 2015 Our perceptions vary greatly about life “Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.” Irving Berlin It was almost fifteen years ago I was waiting to go teach again after having spent nearly twenty three years in the publishing business. I was anxious…

Bird Droppings August 4, 2015 On a chilly morning it is hard to kiss a frog. It is was a bit chilly out in northeast Georgia with nighttime temperatures still hanging in the high fifties or low sixties but rumor of a nice weekend hanging out there. Many of us gardeners are bringing plants in.…

Bird Droppings September 3, 2015 Hey what about routines? We are all creatures of habit and routines. It has been quite a few years ago that my wife called to me in the wee hours of the morning as I was starting to write, our youngest son was sick. A virus had struck hard but…

Bird Droppings September 2, 2015 Community in education doesn’t simply magically appear it takes work I walked out of my college class last night to a beautiful three quarter orange moon. I had left my good camera in my high school class room I knew exactly where on my table. I Have a small class…

Bird Droppings September 1, 2015 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert? Yesterday afternoon I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things that I find as ponder. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a…