Bird Droppings September 24, 2015 Thinking ahead Occasionally I will have a crazy thought although my students will say occasionally I have a normal thought and that would be more like it. They are insinuating most of my thoughts are crazy. My youngest son just has his anniversary coming up and so many memories. I…

Bird Droppings September 23, 2015 It takes community to make a strong rope “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.” Faith Baldwin Each day as I talk to my students I try and set an example…

Bird Droppings September 22, 2015 Seeing all is connected and intertwined As I thought about the Sydney J. Harris passage below and walked out to my car I thought of my quiet spot where I meditate and something hit me. I generally sit facing east towards the rising sun, daily the gossamer threads of life…

Bird Droppings September 21, 2015 The confines or infinity of a circle As I am sitting here this morning wondering does a circle have a beginning and or an end? As learning begins often with a question so today a start and a beginning to my writing and thinking with a question. Many of the…

Bird Droppings September 18, 2015 The constraints of surmounting learning difficulties “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss “There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Bottome An…

September 17, 2015 Do we need a bit more soul? “Soul is different from spirit; the deep soul is the way we live every day, our longings and our fears.” Thomas Moore It has been nearly twenty years since I first read a book written by Thomas Moore. I picked up a copy of The…

Bird Droppings September 16, 2015 Sometimes history is a teacher and others only a memory On Facebook yesterday I shared a photo and article that briefly explained an event in our nation’s history. On September 15, 1963 an explosion tore through the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, it was a Sunday. People…

Bird Droppings September 15, 2015 Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark? “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on…

Bird Droppings September 14, 2015 I have found that real forgiveness is difficult work “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi I spent the morning just about two years ago on a field tip of sorts for a graduate school class. We visited the MLK Jr. Memorial Center…

Bird Droppings September 11, 2015 Why can we not really get a handle on this day? I start with a word I am sitting here making up ponderingerest. Perhaps a good definition is that there is far too much to ponder today, it is a ponderingerest day. In 1938 sixty six percent of the world’s…