The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Spirituality

  • I am sitting by my computer, thinking of a circle.

    Bird Droppings January 2, 2024I am sitting by my computer, thinking of a circle. I missed the last rerun of a favorite miniseries, Into the West, and one of these days, I will find it streaming somewhere. The movie starts and ends with a circle of stones with a line going east to west and…

  • How do we know if we are still human?

    Bird Droppings December 18, 2024How do we know if we are still human? About four years ago, I was listening to the news about the activities at the nation’s capital that many called an insurrection; I wondered, as people were interviewed and ideas were tossed around, are we all human? It seems some in Congress…

  • Can we use the word sacred truthfully, or is it purely mythical?

    Bird Droppings November 25, 2024Can we use the word sacred truthfully, or is it purely mythical? “Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of freedom I…

  • Looking for synchronous moments

    Birddroppings October 9, 2024 Looking for synchronous moments My first profound encounter with the idea of synchronicity was possibly at Mercer in one of my psychology classes, but I had forgotten about it, in all honesty. The school of psychology at Mercer was more Jungian than Freudian, even though experimental psychology and Skinner’s ideas seeped…

  • Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need

    Bird Droppings November 14, 2018 Perhaps, within ourselves is the change we need   I have not been away from my computer for some time finally emailing a ninety nine percent complete pre-prospectus to my committee chair. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ended my procrastination. I am not complaining but I enjoy the…

  • Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory

    Bird Droppings September 23, 2018 Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory   The anniversary of a day that will be a scar on our nation’s history has past. On September 15, 1963 an explosion tore through the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, it was on a Sunday. People…

  • Can we find real learning in the Kalahari Desert?

    Bird Droppings September 20, 2018 Can we find real 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…

  • Should children be left behind?

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2018 Should children be left behind?               “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in         respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It     is chosen and foreordained, and he only…

  • Do we teach or are we taught, a great question?

    Bird Droppings August 2, 2018 Do we teach or are we taught, a great question?   “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein   Andrea Teader does Podcasts, I happened upon one while sitting in my doctor’s office looking up storytelling on the internet. She started her Podcast, The…

  • Why is it hard to think about compassion?

    Bird Dropping August 1, 2018 Why is it hard to think about compassion?   Almost six years ago I was quietly sitting in a hotel room in South Carolina it was still dark outside and it was odd not being at school. I so seldom missed a day of school. My middle son and his…