Grief is the Price of Love Excerpt from See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur[1] Grief is the price of love. Loving someone means that one day, there will be grieving. They will leave you, or you will leave them. The more you love, the more you grieve. Loving someone also means grieving with them. It means letting their pain ... Read More ►
At this time, especially in the United States, many people are working to identify long-standing racial biases and consequent injustices that have imposed enormous suffering on those born into what are often labeled as minority races, as well as inculcating unconscious habits of thought and action in the people born into what is considered the majority race. This climate of ... Read More ►
Bean bags. Yellow. Red. Blue. Anyone familiar with a Waldorf curriculum knows the value of bean bags in helping children to strengthen vitality and develop physical coordination by passing bean bags around a circle without looking. In the foundations program of the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology (AAP), bean bags play a different role. Students receive a bean bag, then are ... Read More ►
The America Festival, May 28-31 2016, at White Feather Ranch, near Placerville, California, became a very special gathering of some wonderful individuals from far and wide, diverse in ethnicity, religion, native country, and all ages. Nearly sixty in all, we were like stellar microcosm of America united in a common striving of a deeper understanding for the country we love ... Read More ►
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By Vicki Robin This article appeared in our spring 2016 issue. Click here to buy a copy. At a lovely Fourth of July party, sometime between polishing off an apple pie and watching the funky small-town parade, my eating life turned upside down and inside out. I’d given lip service to the idea of local food, because I espoused it ... Read More ►
By Tommi Morgan This article appeared in our Winter 2016 issue. Click here to buy a copy. So many young people today are searching for a path that inspires and allows them to be true to their unfolding ideas and ideals. Not so long ago the path was clearly marked by the many feet that went before. Upon reaching adulthood, ... Read More ►
Recently, author Hanna Rosin predicted The End of Men: And the Rise of Women and caused a quite a bit of alarm among guys. Is she right? Is this really the “end of men” or is a new kind of man emerging? Are the old archetypes of manhood really dead or dying? And if so, can men and women navigate ... Read More ►
We share this poem by Li Li, a Shanghai-born poet who now resides in Sweden. The poem was submitted to LILIPOH in conjunction with our Spring 2015 issue which featured homeschooling and Waldorf education on Mainland China. —CK 中国书法 李笠 晨和夜 围着毛笔旋转,变成黑字 母亲的教诲:"一切都在这里,苦练 才能不朽! 雨抽打一扇扇关闭的窗子 和窗背后的脸谱 我带着同样的墨上路 我写着同样的字 天和空,为什么是意思相同? 云笑而不答 投下鹅毛大雪。 墓园展销一块块巨墨 一切都写在这里:名字,出身年月 我,一支轮回千年的笔,在写 大地展现死者写过的字 天空俯身观览 并很快又铺上一张浩大的宣纸。继续苦练! ... Read More ►