Bird Droppings March 19, 2018 Can we teach again a love of learning   This has been a perplexing time of my life. I recall an event, a car wreck in which a young man was killed and his passenger who was a good friend of my youngest son was severely injured. My thoughts rambled…

Bird Droppings March 15, 2018 Teacher’s should always be near the edge   I recall taking groups hiking in North Georgia and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail dropping two hundred feet down looking over and nearly falling. Maybe they…

Bird Droppings March 14, 2018 Sacredness, of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert   I have known about Foxfire for nearly fifty years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1972 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to teaching…

Bird Droppings March 12, 2018 Going to school again for the first time So often as I start my writings each morning there has been an experience recently to build upon. It is utilizing these previous experiences that provide windows and doors into future experiences. I was driving through our town and a shop I…

Bird Droppings March 9, 2018 Using pronouns to cover up   My mornings used to consist of a trip to Quick Trip to get unsweet tea and fill my thermal cup with ice. Today was different and as I drove toward QT I by chance caught a blur on the road, some movement in my…

Bird Droppings March 7, 2018 Should I be a wolf or dog in education?   In light of watching current news and political turmoil I recalled a trip to the Atlanta Zoo. I was approached as I walked up the hill at the Zoo by an elderly man. I had never met this man previously…

Bird Droppings March 6, 2018 Teaching can make a difference each day   “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.…

Bird Droppings March 5, 2018 Potential is only that unless it is 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…

Bird Droppings March 2, 2018 Puzzle’s always are missing a piece   Shell Silverstein tells and has written a great story of the missing piece. A pie shaped piece of a circle is all alone looking for its circle to be whole.   “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what…