Tag: Spirituality

  • Are we experiencing the genocide of learning?

    Bird Droppings April 10, 2018 Are we experiencing the genocide of learning?   In the midst of my daily journals entries lately it gets hectic I am trying to do research and write for my dissertation I left hanging in 2010. I have been running back and forth to my various doctors the past three…

  • The great teachers of America: Where do they come from?

    Bird Droppings April 8, 2018 The great teachers of America: Where do they come from?   I started back to grad school after my twelve yearlong doctorate furlough. I am looking to teach several new college classes when I get back on track which had me started on a new syllabus and lesson plans and…

  • We need both the Rock and the Smoke

    Bird Droppings April 7, 2018 We need both the Rock and the Smoke   “If people find no room in their lives to pray or to meditate, to reflect deeply on why they have been created and what they must do with their lives, and to listen with all of their being to the guidance…

  • Potential is only that, unless it is acted upon.

    Bird Droppings April 4, 2018 Potential is only that, unless it is acted upon.   “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.   Earlier in the day I watched a fellow argue with the pastor from the Texas church where a gunman killed…

  • Is there ever a clear pathway in Life

    Bird Droppings April 2, 2018 Is there ever a clear pathway in Life   I had did Weight Watchers about two years back and I had lost about twenty five pounds. I never thought of changing medications for blood pressure. It seemed as the week progressed I became dehydrated and by that Thursday my kidneys…

  • I detest shopping but I really like Kroger

    Bird Droppings April 1, 2018 I detest shopping but I really like Kroger   About two years back I spent nearly a week of using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer. It was interesting I had two thoughts while similar that came to me this morning as I started the day out. One…

  • Looking for reasons for why kids go bad

    Bird Droppings March 31, 2018                                                                                                      Looking for reasons for why kids go bad “Come; let us put our minds together to see what kind of life we can create for our children.” Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux Nearly sixteen years have passed since I did a research paper on the causes of various emotional issues with…

  • Gratitude is more than a word it is an action

    Bird Droppings March 30, 2018 Gratitude is more than a word it is an action   “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” Chief Seattle, 1854   Back in…

  • Is it only a bird dropping?

    Bird Droppings March 29, 2018 Is it only a bird dropping?   “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more beautiful and, therefore, naturally more valuable,’ or vice versa. Regardless of which colors are more beautiful, or necessary, or valuable, the truth…

  • Teachers! We should always be near the edge.

    Bird Droppings March 26, 2018 Teachers! We should always be near 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. A…