Bird Droppings April 22, 2012 Being who we are   “Realness in the facilitator of learning is critical. When the facilitator is a real person, being what she is, entering into a relationship with the learner without presenting a front or a façade, she is much more likely to be effective.” Carl Rodgers              …

Bird Droppings April 20, 2012 It is not always who we think we are   “I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ about half past dead; I just need some place where I can lay my head. “Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?” He just grinned and shook…

Bird Droppings April 19, 2012 Sometimes in a crash   When we first moved to our house nearly six years ago our internet provider was a fickle one. Today all was well and tomorrow who knows. Sometimes during a storm service would go out and I would call India or should I say customer service…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2012 We are only a small part of all that is   “Every living thing is alive thanks to the living of everything else. The planet earth is a single cell. A person is ethical only when every living cell, whether plant or animal, is considered sacred and divine.” Dr. Lewis…

Bird Droppings April 17, 2012 So many things today   Five years ago today the headline of the Atlanta Journal Constitution drew everyone’s attention with four inch letters “Bloodbath” and the article went on to address the response of the nation to shootings at Virginia Tech the previous day. At that time my middle son…

Bird Droppings April 16, 2012 Habits or routine   “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to…

Bird Droppings April 15, 2012 Problems are often misunderstood explanations   “Although you may understand the explanations, if you are still suffering because of problems, you clearly do not understand the true nature of your mind, your body, and your senses.” Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Transforming Problems Into Happiness   Every day I deal with numerous…

Bird Droppings April 14, 2012 Making a difference   “Dialogue, is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire   A  Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing. As I read a…

Bird Droppings April 13, 2012 A seemingly simple concept is friendship   Recently the mother of a former student told me how much her son thought of me. I wish it were not so but we all need ego stroking at one time or another. But so often when we pay attention to a student…

  Bird Droppings April 12, 2012 Potential is only that unless acted upon   “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and…