Bird Droppings May 17, 2016 Culture is far more than just a word “Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and granting a space of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regardful of the rule that thought comes before speech. In the midst of sorrow, sickness, death or misfortune of…

Bird Droppings May 16, 2016 To die a happy death: listening to a whippoorwill call I have been teaching high school now for nearly sixteen years and after summer break another year ahead. I am starting my writing day a bit later than normal since we had the grandbabies over yesterday and I was plum…

Bird Droppings May 13, 2016 Why should I do more? “Choices are sacred to life’s journey. They lie along the path that all of us must follow for ourselves. An important Cherokee lesson is that if you involve yourself in any decision, you also experience the consequences of that decision.” Dr. J.T. Garrett, Meditations with…

Bird Droppings May 12, 2016 Can we be about healing? “People cannot know how sacred power, or medicine truly works, bit almost every Native American knows something of its ways. Often seen as a mysterious force that is fluid, transmissible and important malleable, sacred power can be manipulated by those who possess it – either…

Bird Droppings May 11, 2016 Is curriculum sacred? My wife and I are talking about taking a day hiatus to explore the North Georgia Mountains with no schedule and little baggage. We will head north Saturday morning no plans. Thinking back to our last crazy trip our last journey included a nursery or two, some…

Bird Droppings May 10. 2016 What is normal and can we define it quantitatively or qualitatively? Two years ago today I was rushing down highway 78 to find where my son had been involved in an accident. All I knew was it was near Walmart. I assumed it was near the huge distribution center and…

Bird droppings May 9, 2016 Do we learn from a ripple or a wave? Today I will be digging and planting, transplanting and repotting various flowers and herbs in our yard. I need to spend some time weeding eating the jungle now that we have from the rain and storms headed in. I have several…

Bird Droppings May 6, 2016 Should we be pondering the idea of faith or maybe trust? “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered, or the ultimate direction of the process. But now the speed of change is accelerating logarithmically. It is…

Bird Droppings May 4, 2016 Why do children do what they do? “Our task is to make our children into disciples of the good life, by our own actions toward them and toward other people. This is the only effective discipline in the long run. But it is more arduous, and takes longer, than simply…

Bird Droppings May 3, 2016 Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls It has been four years since I was staying at the Sylvan Mills Bed and Breakfast in a room literally over a waterfall. I went up to North Georgia to recharge perhaps another word might be to rekindle my passion for education…