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…
We watched a fabulous animated film last night called, Sita Sings the Blues, which I highly recommend. You can get it on Netflix, but you can even see it free here. The animation is so original and imaginative that it draws you into this parallel life, the modern one and the historical one (Ramayana). But the film itself was not made without turmoil. The artist Nina Paley used her own life trials for the modern…
I went and voted today and thought about this whole election process. Is it me or are you just disgusted with the amount of money that is spent on campaigning – from the most local politician to the highest rank, it is really abhorrent to think about the money that is spent. Do you know what I heard last night in passing when T turned on CNN for a few minutes? That Sarah Palin will…
So Sarkozy is on this kick to kick out the gypsies – that should solve France’s problems, don’t you think? We have someone staying at our house from Paris right now as she is waiting for her sublet to be ready in a few days. She tells me this morning that Sarkozy is also the name of the head of Roma – interestingly enough – meanwhile she also said that Sarkozy was to bring a…