The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Thomas Merton

  • Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight.

    Bird Droppings October 6, 2025Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight. Today should have been the harvest moon, but the clouds covered it up. As I walked out in the morning, I noticed that it was not cold today. I kept thinking of a morning when a little more than a third of…

  • Cultivating the inner self

    Bird Droppings May 22, 2025Cultivating the inner self “If people find no room in their lives to pray or to meditate, to reflect deeply on why they have been created and what they must do with their lives, and to listen with all of their being to the guidance of the universe, then these people…

  • Occasionally, we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke, perhaps before it is too late

    Bird Droppings April 8, 2025Occasionally, we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke, perhaps before it is too late Thinking back to my biology teaching days, high school students always ask questions about religion as we get into evolution. Occasionally, I get someone who wants to prove a point. A young lady…

  • What could be more sacred than life itself?

    Bird Droppings November 1, 2011 What could be more sacred than life itself? Perhaps having been born on All Saints Day in St. Joseph’s Hospital gives me a better insight into the sacred than most normal folk. Of course then I have to consider that soon after I was born the Church dropped All Saints…

  • Teach to where the learning will be not to where it is

    Bird Droppings October 17-18, 2011 Teach to where the learning will be not to where it is I took a relaxing weekend with family and grand baby and sort of got my thoughts together as the days went by. Somewhere as the rain dissipated last week we had a few good days of sunshine even…