I’m leaving this morning on a much needed road trip – there will be family, friends and Madonna in the midst. I’m leaving the LaLa and my loved ones here along with a guest from Spain to watch over things and keep the home fires burning bright. Last night, I went to the Steiner Study Group to talk about Rudolf Steiner’s Education as a Force for Social Change. We covered his first two lectures that…
When Tin started going to Waldorf, I started reading about Rudolph Steiner and it just happened that all of this was happening around the same time the global crisis lit up. Steiner was avant-garde for his time, and sorry to say, even for our time. But he developed the Waldorf School out of a global crisis that was WW1, not unlike the global crisis we are facing today. I’ve been watching the polarity of politics…
Tin completed his first year of nursery school at Waldorf and the class went to celebrate by the Tree of Life in Audubon Park today. Many of his classmates are moving onto kindergarten so that means next year Tin will be the big boy. Hard to believe. But Tin is ready for summer; he absconded with his classmate’s trombone and he began his lessons in earnest – musicology 101. First the moves, then the music.
The days are getting longer and hotter but that just means summer is around the corner, or actually standing on the corner peaking around the telephone pole. I was walking to City Park and stopped to talk to my new neighbor who bought the historic house on the corner – he was bringing down an enormous pecan tree (he wasn’t, the tree company was) because it was rotten. Yes those pecan trees grow gigantic but…
Who knew Rudolph Steiner – I didn’t – before Tin started Waldorf, but since he’s been there it seems that Steiner is all around me – he is speaking about finance, he is speaking about agriculture, he is speaking about education, he is speaking about the spirit, he is speaking about community, he is speaking about compassion, he is speaking about our inner most selves – and he keeps on speaking – the man would…
Tin is at the Waldorf School, which was founded by Rudolph Steiner over 90 years ago to address the needs of a post WWI community, a community that needed to radically reinvent itself. Steiner founded Waldorf – now 1000 schools around the world – as a force for social change. However, he also founded the biodynamic movement as well as an entire philosophy called Anthroposophy. From this philosophy sprang a dynamic and transforming movement that…
I met last night with two intelligent and creative people who are at the cusp of sprouting wings. How they are doing this is by the seat of their pants. One is helping the business world go paperless, with a little help from some online tools such as http://sproutsocial.com/, https://www.odesk.com/, http://www.lynda.com/. What we all agreed on is in this brave new world the best asset you can have is to be authentic. And that’s not…
I think back when I was a young child left with my sister and our nanny, Annie, the coifed water heater that was in our kitchen. My mother had painted a face and tied an apron around it and so was born our nanny. It was by accident that we stumbled upon the Waldorf School and enrolled Tin there, not that we hadn’t always heard good things about the school but honestly prior to Tin…
I went to sleep last night with a full moon hanging over the bayou and woke to a rosy dawn – signs all is okay. The Times Picayune’s history archive the other day was about how Rex, the first official Mardi Gras krewe in New Orleans, pressured the city to close down on Fat Tuesday, which began the real Carnival season in New Orleans over a hundred years ago. This morning the front page of…
When we returned from Spain and got a phone call from the now head mistress of New Orleans Montessori, I used my gut to guide me and this is what my gut said, 1) Ms. Albers isn’t there? (she retired July 31st) – why was no transition plan outlined to parents? 2) lead paint on the building next door is causing a crisis that requires moving asap (this sounds like an over reaction – head…