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Direction is needed when speaking of velocity
Bird Droppings September 5, 2013 Direction is needed when speaking of velocity Over the past long weekend I worked on several paper ideas, sat in the recliner, dabbled in my yard briefly around rain...
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In the pursuit of excellence
Bird Droppings September 6, 2013 In the pursuit of excellence I was listening to crickets and tree frogs as the sounds of morning surrounded me with the rustling of leaves in the steady breeze as I...
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Our perceptions vary greatly about life
Bird Droppings September 9, 2013 Our perceptions vary greatly about life “Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.” Irving Berlin It was twelve years ago I was waiting to go...
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I am just sitting, pondering and thinking wiping away a tear or two
Bird Droppings September 10, 2013 I am just sitting, pondering and thinking wiping away a tear or two I was outside very early today as a great horned owl was irritating my dog keeping her up. It seems...
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Ponderingerest is that even a word?
Bird Droppings September 11, 2013 Ponderingerest is that even a word? Today is an interesting and yet solemn day; a day marked by memories, twelve years ago I started teaching again after a twenty...
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Checking the toes for mittens
Bird Droppings September 12, 2013 Checking the toes for mittens It has been some time since one of my granddaughters was showing off her new hat and mittens. It was quite a sight clad in a t-shirt,...
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So much difference in the perceptions of mankind
Bird Droppings September 13, 2013 So much difference in the perceptions of mankind Friday the thirteenth for some a day of foreboding and others it is simply another sunrise and sunset. European...
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Finding a way to forgive
Bird Droppings September 16, 2013 Finding a way to forgive “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi I spent the morning on a field tip of sorts for a...
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Can we more carefully define soul
Bird Droppings September 16, 2013 Can we more carefully define soul Over the years I have written about the idea of or concept of soul many times to the point of considering using the word at one point...
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I am where I need to be
Bird Droppings September 17, 2013 I am where I need to be “A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that...
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Hunting for the right words
Bird Droppings September 18, 2013 Hunting for the right words “The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” Robert M. Pirsig, American author Whether it is trying to...
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How capable do we need to be?
Bird Droppings September 19, 2013 How capable do we need to be? What a contrast to only a few weeks ago as the sun was shining and the moon is full as I went out in the wee hours with a crystal clear...
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Trying to find a way back to normal or is it abnormal
Bird Droppings September 20, 2013 Trying to find a way back to normal or is it abnormal “Your son or daughter may be flashing warning signals that he or she will soon drop out of society and join the...
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I often wonder, why do I write what I write?
Bird Droppings September 21, 2013 I often wonder, why do I write what I write? There have been times when weather, water, various electrical issues and who knows what other gremlins have impacted my...
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Do we teach or are we taught
Bird Droppings November 7, 2013 Do we teach or are we taught “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein So many times when discussing students who are having...
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Spirituality is it an uncertain certainty?
Bird Droppings November 8, 2013 Spirituality is it an uncertain certainty? “When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds...
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It is not hard being color blind in a world that only sees black and white
Bird Droppings November 10, 2013 It is not hard being color blind in a world that only sees black and white It has been nearly forty five years, actually more since I found out I was color blind. I had...
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Gratitude is action as well as words
Bird Droppings November 11, 2011 Gratitude is action as well as words Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things...
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Today is day one or so I am told
Bird Droppings November 12, 2013 Today is day one or so I am told I remember nearly seven years ago as we got closer to the last day in our old house it was actually appropriately to be the last day of...
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Looking at a cloud
Bird Droppings November 13, 2013 Looking at a cloud I am still warming my hands as this was the coldest morning of the fall to date. I went out to start my wife’s car and off in the pines a great...
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