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…

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…