Bird Droppings May 19, 2015 Is curriculum sacred? My wife and I are talking about taking a couple of day’s hiatus to explore the North Georgia Mountains with no schedule and little baggage. We will throw a few t-shirts and shorts in a bag and take off. We actually have more computers and camera gear…

Bird Droppings May 18, 2015 What is normal and can we define it quantitatively or qualitatively? “Normality in fact has nothing to do with statistics. It refers to a norm, a model of perfection, an example to be followed. It indicates what we should be. Normality is therefore something to strive for, something at which…

Bird droppings May 17, 2015 Do we learn from a ripple or a wave? Today I will be digging and planting, transplanting and repotting various flowers and herbs in our yard and also weeding eating the jungle now that we have had so much rain just about every day up till this past week and…

Bird Droppings May 15, 2015 Finding our reflection on a pond or window I boxed up a couple of boxes of “junk” from my class room the other day. Each piece at one time or another had been a teachable moment. Each was an item and or items for that had been collected and or…

Bird Droppings May 14, 2015 Life is making a quilt It was nearly eight years ago my wife walked in and told me that my mother said this day was to be a happy time a joyous occasion as we celebrated my father’s life after he had passed. She said I think we are even…

Bird Droppings May 13, 2015 Why are we not seeking peace? I walked out of my house into a cloudy morning sky. Off in the pines two great horned owls were calling to each other. Not being fluent in Great Horned Owl I can only say it was two owls hooting away. Still I was…

Bird Droppings May 12, 2015 Should we be pondering the idea of faith? “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered, or the ultimate direction of the process. But now the speed of change is accelerating logarithmically. It is apparent that developing…

Bird Droppings May 11, 2015 Can we even compare ethics and politics? I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal Constitution about a year ago this morning. The front page had various articles but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon and required to go on…

Bird Droppings May 8, 2015 Why do children do what they do? “Our task is to make our children into disciples of the good life, by our own actions toward them and toward other people. This is the only effective discipline in the long run. But it is more arduous, and takes longer, than simply…

Bird Droppings May 7, 2015 Empathy; do we all have it? It was nearly two years ago I was sitting at breakfast beside a waterfall on the side of the mountain outside Clayton Georgia. It was wet there being it is a temperate deciduous rainforest in North Georgia and cooler at night than what I…