Bird Droppings February 8, 2015 I was listening to the stillness of a morning, the sunrise, and or sometimes we need a window and not a mirror. I was sitting alone this morning as I do on weekend mornings trying to get a few photos of the sunrise. The ambient temperature is still a bit…

Bird Droppings February 6, 2015 I am sitting quietly trying to understand the word courage Recently two movies came out in theatres across the country. One is about a sniper in Iraq and one about a man who was leading the struggle searching for freedom and equality for all mankind. Both men were killed violently…

Bird Droppings February 5, 2015 The interconnectivity of all that is – a puzzle falling in place “Every footstep is the journey. Every sight, every sound, every touch and taste and smell with which we are blessed is the journey. All of the colors before us are the journey, and we are the journey. May…

Bird Droppings February 4, 2015 Writing for some seems so difficult in a digital world “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was Brave New…

Bird Droppings February 3, 2015 Solitude is within ones soul and heart “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear filled eyes, one affirmation endures..one truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where there…

Bird Droppings February 2, 2015 Why would anyone be a teacher? I was talking with students several days ago about going into teaching and one of the students actually wanted to be a teacher. Along that line the Georgia Legislator had discussed previously if only briefly increasing teacher pay by four percent after numerous years…

Bird Droppings February 1, 2015 Apathy is being there and never having really gone I started out the door today before sunrise and my goal was to get a few pictures of the rising sun. Clouds hindered my quest as they hung low in the sky to the east. I went by my quiet spot…

Bird Droppings January 30, 2015 Reconciliation of trust “It’s the examination of conscience. Unless you examine your conscience, you don’t know what you have to be sorry for and what to confess” Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M., S.T.D., Ten Tips for Better Confessions, The Gift of Reconciliation Sort of difficult ending this shortened week with a vocabulary…

Bird Droppings January 28, 2015 Sitting thinking of a circle I missed the last rerun of a favorite miniseries, Into the West, and one of these days will find the DVD set. The movie starts and ends with a circle of stones with a line going east to west and one going north to south…

Bird Droppings January 27, 2015 How do we know if we are still human? Perhaps it is from growing up in a situation where we were daily aware of special needs children and adults from the birth of my younger brother till his passing almost eighteen years ago. Those in my family have had connections…