Bird Droppings April 11, 2012 Paradoxes and bewilderment   I received the following in an email just before the 2008 elections, a friend of mine sent it out and as I read the first time it was humorous. However as a teacher I read deeper into what was being said. I listened by coincidence to…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2012 While I detest shopping I like Kroger   Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the day out.  One I heard on the radio going to get gas for my wife a day or two ago from a country music radio announcer recalling an old…

Bird Droppings April 9, 2012 Nothing you can do   “I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.” Confucius, BC 551-479   Very early I woke up to a creak in the house, just a small sound, perhaps the anticipation of our dog waking up but…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2012 Pondering ABABABABABAB                     Last night I went back over some notes from one of my numerous posts in my various blog sites and graduate school notes. I had been reading from a paper on a program that was developed in the mid 1980’s in California. The program with one…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2012 Finding our piece and or place   “We are not all called to be great. But we are called to reach out our hands to our brothers and sisters, and to care for the earth in the time we are given” Kent Nerburn, Small Graces   Many years ago walking…

Bird Droppings April 6, 2012 Hope’s direct opposite is despair!   “Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air … but only for one second without hope.” Hal Lindsey   As I sit here thinking back to Red Cross training and severe bleeding…

Bird Droppings April 5, 2012 Finding Soul in looking at education   There is something about the first light on a spring morning and trying to discern how many different birds are singing and calling back and forth waking up. Today was a rough one seems my arthritis in my shoulders is acting up and…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2012 Listening for nature’s call   Lately as I venture out in the wee hours of the morning whip o wills are calling. It has been a few years since I heard them with such regularity. They seem to start after midnight and go till nearly dawn. With a dense stand…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2012 Finding where community exists   As I approached the end of my doctorial course work I was involved in a class on educational ethics which featured nine texts all of which had an under lying current of caring and relationships as keys to education or I should say to successful…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2012 A song of the morning   There is a time each day when bird’s first start singing it is generally just before the sun begins to come up. First one and then another start in and soon birds can be heard throughout the trees. I stood trying to focus on…