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…
Down the street at the church on the corner of Canal and Jeff Davis is a marquis saying, “Live a Worthy Life.” Tall order, I say. We’ve started a Rudolf Steiner study group at Waldorf and the first group met for the first time last night and the book we are studying is called, “Education as a Force for Social Change.” It is a series of lectures Steiner gave leading up to the opening and…
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 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 must admit to ignorance when Tin joined the Waldorf School here in New Orleans. I had heard of Waldorf but other than heard the name, I knew little about the school’s philosophy or that of Rudolf Steiner, who I hadn’t heard of at all. It’s possibly a grave oversight that not many people have heard of Steiner as he was one of the giants in philosophy and his work prescient enough that reading his…
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…