As we enter the darker days, with the time change that came on Saturday, Waldorf is lighting the way for the kids as well as the parents. The early childhood classes held their ceremonial lantern walk as we made lanterns from paper, leaves, and paint and we sang songs about light, and walked through the dark halls into the fading light of the playground. What a lovely ceremony and a good reminder that Tin is…
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…
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…
Yesterday was another whirlwind of LaLa madness – moving the gas pipe that was installed in the flash hot water heater to the outside of the laundry room to transform that room into a kitchen, which of course led to moving the dryer exhaust which had been improperly installed to begin with – all of this was going on under my office floor, when I tried to run out for yoga from having been in…
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…