The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Uncheedah

  • Why do we even have public education?

    Bird Droppings December 12, 2011 Why do we even have public education?   “Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation’s competitive needs.”  Jonathan Kozol               On the front page of…

  • Thinking about a chorus of frogs and crickets

    Bird Droppings December 8, 2011 Thinking about a chorus of Frogs and Crickets   “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd   On most every night and early morning of the year when I walk about especially early in the morning I am listening to the choral arrangement of tree…

  • Looking to Nature for answers

    Bird Droppings December 7, 2011 Looking to Nature for answers   As I read and ponder a world engrossed with money and how we can spend money I wonder if perhaps some of the thinking that is bringing so many American Indians back to their more traditional world views has merit. I was beginning to…

  • A new life as we make the journey

    Bird Droppings December 6, 2011 A new life as we make the journey   Resurrection By Susan Thomas Underwood   The universe is energy in constant motion. There are ebbs and flows; Outcomes and income, And change…… Always change.   The physical world reflects this motion In the cycles of life, There is spring and…

  • Seeing each piece as we live

    Bird Droppings December 5, 2011 Seeing each piece as we live   It has been several years ago that I began looking at life as a journey each piece building to the next. Yesterday I was reviewing my jaunt to take our granddaughter home to North Georgia. I got up to go run by the…

  • Do more than belonging

    Bird Droppings December 4, 2011 Do more than belonging   It has been quite a while since I was unable to walk out first thing in the morning whether weather or being lazy it was not a good morning to venture out and I think the dog knew it as well and slept in. A…

  • So many thoughts for one day

    Bird Droppings November 13, 2011 So many thoughts for one day I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Americans. I was three or four years old when I first remember my father’s stories of Little Strong Arm and Black Eagle.…