October 1, 2023 A Reflection Upon Michaelmas Festival by Sharifa Oppenheimer Michaelmas 2023 This morning I joined the CWS community for Michaelmas festivities. We gathered in the Pavilion as the 7th and 8th grades processed in with song, each carrying a brilliant autumn banner. One by one the classes entered; slowly their pure child-voices began …
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September 24, 2023 Monarch by Pamela C. Perkins 2023 Tiny egg all yellowy-white, Its’ secret hidden out of sight. Then pop! It opens, and I see A caterpillar, striped and wee. Caterpillar, not a sound, Creeping, creeping all around. Down each branch and up each leaf: Munching, munching ! Eat! Eat ! Eat! Caterpillar turns …
September 17, 2023 Michaelmas~ A Festival Dedicated to Inner Work by Shanah Ahmadi Here at Rose Rock School in Oklahoma, we are preparing for our Autumn festival—Michaelmas. Likewise, many of you may be similarly engaged in this work in your homes and communities. Festival preparation includes outward preparation—like the creation of a Circle or a Story …
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September 10, 2023 One of the more challenging parts of parenting is finding cooperation in all that we need our young children to do. It becomes especially challenging when they develop their own ideas and agendas about what they would rather be doing in a particular moment, and thus, when we require of them to change …
September 3, 2023 Today’s Living Arts Weekly is a delightful article from author Judith Frizlen, who has just come out with a new book, Where Wisdom Meets Wonder: Forty Stories of Grandma Love. You can find more about Judith’s new book, as well as how to purchase it at her website here. This archived article from …
August 27, 2023 In the first couple weeks of August, LifeWays instructors were busy in three locations around the country holding in-person retreats for our latest Fundamentals course. Shortly after, our participants began the online portion of their course with The Living Arts: Cornerstones of Care, which serves as a deeper introduction to the Living …
August 20, 2023 When we consider Life as the curriculum and Home as the model, we hold the space for LifeWays in action to be unique for everyone. While our principles uphold the integrity of our work and our similar practices spin threads of commonality, because each of our lives is different, our work with …
August 13, 2023 I spent last night with my very dear friend and colleague, our Board President Shanah Ahmadi, as we wrapped up a week of the Fundamentals course in Oklahoma. We spent five delightful days with a beautiful group of women (more on this later, perhaps!), and now we must both direct our immediate …
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August 6, 2023 Today’s article is from our friend and colleague, Pamela Perkins, who shared a story with us last week. Here we have an Ocean Circle that is perfect for summer time programs, or extracting verses from for sharing with your little ones any time. She says it is an adaptation of a verse …
July 30, 2023 Today’s article is from our friend and colleague, Pamela Perkins, who shared this delightful little story with us from a recent visit with her granddaughters. In our Fundamentals course and LifeWays Certificate trainings, we hold classes on Storytelling. One of the simplest and most impactful types of stories that we encourage is …
