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…
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…
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…
So I went for blood work and to see the dermatologist this morning and basically things are what they are – I’ll get the results of the lab later this week, but the dermatologist said that there is pretty much nothing she can do to get my hair growing. Once my thyroid is level, she could give me steroids and/or my endocrinologist could give me an intense hormone therapy treatment over a course of two…
This morning I took Tin to be tested to see if he is gifted. This was the outcome of midsummer looking into schools. I had scheduled it in June of 2011 for March of 2009, his birthday week. After enrolling him in Waldorf and learning more about the school, I thought why bother with this test – he’s 3 years old for godsakes. But a friend of a friend (who happens to be a child…
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…