Healing Through Art Kenneth Smith After ten days of intensive work in April 2025, the Healing Through Art students finally gathered, mounted, and hung all their drawings and paintings and set up their sculptures. Three years of study were brought together for an exhibition, coinciding with their graduation. Two Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training (BACWTT) rooms were ... Read More ►
I Know Where the Fireflies Have Gone by A.C. Francis My grandparents’ property included a house in which they raised their sixteen children and a barn from which my grandfather ran his catering business. They had a pool installed when I was six and owned a couple of golfcarts that became my mode of transportation to take me through my ... Read More ►
Being Present to Death by Tehilla Muller I wonder if the more we live As though we could die tomorrow The more vibrant we live And thus the more love we radiate Death can make us beautiful When I was eighteen years old, I moved to the Camphill community of Triform in Hudson, New York. I invested myself readily ... Read More ►
'How we Rise is How we Raise' (part 2) If We're Hard on Ourselves, We're Hard on Our Kids by Ona Wetherall O’Hara As an early childhood teacher, I often think about the parents of the children in my class just as much as the children. Parent work is so important in education and especially in early childhood, when children ... Read More ►
Dear Readers, Our summer issue bore the theme, “Coming of Age,” and featured many paths that young people are following to find their way in these times. Their courage, creativity, and commitment to the future inspired me with optimism, gratitude, and hope. I trust it did for you, as well. At the beginning, I considered the current issue to be ... Read More ►
It started with a question. Not a complicated one. Not one with charts or graphs. Just this: What does peace mean to you? In 2009, I was a photographer with a journalism degree, traveling for magazine assignments and corporate gigs. But I found myself increasingly troubled by the headlines—violence, division, injustice—and feeling like something vital was missing. I ... Read More ►
The Elder Flower is symbolic of endings and rebirth... "Love of wisdom acquired from life may be compared to the flowering of a plant at the proper stage of maturity." Rudolf Steiner, “Love and Its Meaning in the World”[1] "If humans learn to become older consciously with every day, then this really means a meeting with spiritual beings, ... Read More ►
“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would lead the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the cosmos.” Rudolf Steiner Thresholds as a Metaphor On our path to knowledge, during the course of human development, we continuously cross thresholds that lead to the realization of pre-birth intention for cosmic attunement. Organizing this evolution through the image ... Read More ►
I have been a practicing veterinarian for nearly forty years, and those years have provided a bounty of rich experiences. While most of us choose a career in veterinary medicine because we want to work with animals, it is actually very much a people profession. We quickly learn the importance of proper communication and relating to our clients. When our ... Read More ►
It is hard to explain to people today, when it seems like everyone wants to visit Italy, that our neighbors once targeted my family because we are Italian. We had only lived in rural Connecticut a few weeks. Once my father saved enough money to leave our city apartment behind, off we moved to the cul-de-sac where people had larger ... Read More ►
