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…

Bird Droppings April 1, 2010 Seeking peace             Often when sitting and thinking on a clear spring day a bit later than I normally sit down to write I would postpone and maybe come back tomorrow procrastinate is a good word. But I actually had a great excuse my granddaughter is napping nearby and we…

Bird Droppings March 31, 2012 Looking for reasons   “Come; let us put our minds together to see what kind of life we can create for our children.” Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux   Nearly eleven years has passed since I did a research paper on causes of various emotional issues with children. When I first…

Bird Droppings March 30, 2012 Are we going in the right direction?             Sometimes when I start my day I have no real understanding of the direction and or course of my day. I walked out into a dark morning lit with stars only and knowing somewhere hidden was a moon soon to be showing.…