Why create this Blog and use this Title

This blog was created in response to an assignment for a graduate class I am taking. I am a math teacher studying Education Administration to eventually become a school principal. The course I am in revolves around the use of technology in the classroom. The course requirement is to create a blog and post a review of a good teaching resourse website. There will be at least one and possibly more posts about teaching in the near future. But I think I might use this blog for any number of purposes as time progesses, so I picked a title with a personal significance. The Buffalo is a most amazing creature; small spindly legs on a massive body. They posses incredible power and surprizing speed, yet in the wild they often seem quite calm and unassuming. The buffalo has been my favorite animal since I was a young child living in South Dakota. I went on a school field trip to Custer State Park where they had helped save them from extinction and had developed the world's largetst herd. I have fond memories of college. I went to Harding University, their mascot is the Bison, so there is an educational link for me to that dignified animal. And one of my alltime favorite memories involves buffalo. A few years ago on a family vacation through Yellowstone National Park, I pulled my truck off to the side of the road between a large open field and a wide river. After a few monemts a large herd of buffalo slowly passed in front of my truck and waded into the river. The entire herd swam across the river and eventually disappeared into the trees and brush on the opposite side of the moving water. To me it was a vivid picture of the majestic simplicity of God's creation. When I think of Buffalo on the Prairie I think of a calm controlled power that's unaffected by the chaotic movement that exists outside of the peace on the prairie. Sometimes that's how my life feels, but not nearly often enough. Buffalo on the Prairie paints a picture in my mind of a place I want to be able to visit at a moments notice and where it would be okay to permanently reside.