I am so excited to announce that I am returning to something that I love: book studies! Book studies are such a wonderful way to come together and not only learn from the page but from the insight and experiences of others. And what better book to dive into than The Kingdom of Childhood. It … Continue reading New Book Study – The Kingdom of Childhood
Balance. It is a big word these days. Finding balance in life. Making sure no one part takes control and we lose sight of all the other facets of our lives. But is balance what we should be striving for? These thoughts were spurred by a post on Instagram by Waldorf Handwork Educators, where it … Continue reading Reconsidering Balance
52 Weeks of Steiner has officially concluded, and it was such a wonderful experience. As I close this goal and start a new one, I wanted to take a moment to discuss my relationship to Steiner and his words, as I see it clearly now after all these weeks. One of the many things that … Continue reading Another Year, Another Goal
52 Weeks of Steiner – The Return A Verse For Our Time(For This Michaelic Age)Attributed to Rudolf SteinerWe must eradicate from the soulAll fear and terror of what comes towards man out of the future. We must acquire serenityIn all feelings and sensations about the future.We must look forward with absolute equanimityTo everything that may … Continue reading This Michaelic Age
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 52 Rudolf Steiner, 8 April 1923, DornachCycle of the Year, Lecture 5GA 223 I've been sitting with this image for a while. There is much to take in and ponder. I invite you to ponder as well. (This post is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To … Continue reading Man in Relation to the Yearly Festivals
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 51 I may now to myself belong,And radiantly spread inward lightInto the darkness of all space and time. All natural Being presses towards sleep,The depths of soul shall waken,And waking carry gleams of SunInto cold floods of Winter" Calendar of the Soul, Week 25Translator: Ernst Lehrs (note: some calendars are … Continue reading I May Now to Myself Belong
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 50 We should not underestimate the significance it once held for mankind to focus the whole attention during the year on a festival-time. Although in our time the celebration of religious festivals is largely a matter of habit, it was not always so. There were times when people united their … Continue reading A Festival Season for All
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 49 You will be well aware that people who are given to creative thoughts and the free play of imagination are not equally productive at all times. Poets, for example, if they are honest with themselves, have to admit now and then that they are out of tune, unable to … Continue reading Fourteen Day Cycles
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 47 We can notice that boys especially feel a strong need at this age [of fourteen and fifteen]—we only have to discover this and understand it correctly—for: “Everybody must choose his own hero, whom he has to follow on his way to Mt. Olympus.” And it is especially important for … Continue reading Differentiated Needs
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 45 For centuries, no one has been educated in a way appropriate to human nature, which makes it quite impossible to accurately look at human life and compare it with the life of the earth. People express themselves through their view of the world. Quite understandably, people say, for … Continue reading Inner Impulses
