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The Stars Once Spoke to the Human Being
May 3, 2022
How beautiful are these words! The “once” reminds us of “once upon a time.” That puts us into mythic time, which happened then and is happening now—it flows always. The twinkling stars once spoke to my grandmother, to my mother, and now to me. I can listen at any time. The stars are always there, comforting, embracing. Thus begins a verse from Rudolf Steiner. The verse continues “…they are silent now”—ouch! Why? “It is world destiny that they are silent now.” That’s the focus of this article, for parents and Waldorf teachers who care about children – what that star silence means for human beings growing up in the “now,” and what it means for caretakers. More »
The Experience of Thinking: Plato to Buber by John B. Thomson
March 21, 2022
This book is not a history of philosophy from Plato to Buber. It is rather a personal journey and an attempt to show the different ways of thinking that philosophers have adopted in building their world-views. For some, the starting place is the mind with reasoning and introspection. For others, observations in the world of sense impressions provide the point of departure. Both activities are usually present but in different proportions. ~ John B. Thomson More »
X'ntigone: Reworking of the Greek Classic Tragedy Has Parallels with Covid Pandemic: Waldorf graduate reinterprets Sophocles
March 14, 2022
The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent. Sound familiar? Prime Cut Productions have collaborated with the MAC theatre to bring the Greek classic Antigone into the zeitgeist of our world today. X'ntigone takes the timeless, universal themes of the Sophocles tragedy and views them through the lens of contemporary society. X'ntigone (pronounced Zan-tig-on-e) is the niece of the ancient leader Creon. Change is about to happen, but X'ntigone is quarantined and she and her uncle have unfinished business to thrash out before the celebrations can commence. Exploring what happens when old world order meets a radical new world vision, in this drama political expediency meets the voice of a generation who want to tear down the power structures that have ill-served a crumbling state. More »
The Rubicon (from Ukraine)
February 28, 2022
A 9-year-old child is going through a special period of his life. Our school uses the term Rubicon. Rubicon, it's like being banished from paradise. The magic gradually dissipates and children begin to see reality as it is. Reality can be unexpected, scary or frustrating. Therefore, the purpose of the 3rd grade is to help the child learn to live in this reality. Learn to do everything that humanity once learned to do before coming into the modern world. The Rubicon is a time when you need to make decisions and act. More »
The Medieval Festival
February 22, 2022
During these cold days of winter sixth grade teachers everywhere are beginning to put together a celebration that has become a cornerstone of the curriculum, the Medieval Festival. It has evolved quite a bit over the years; it didn’t even exist when my first two classes came through sixth grade. Those classes had a rousing experience of Medieval Games but no knighting ceremony. Happily for my next group, a few years before they would be sixth graders a colleague brought a new model for a more meaningful festival to our school that a friend had developed for her school, and so a new tradition began. More »
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