January 9, 2022 Do you, like me, experience this time in midwinter as being sort of a time-out-of-time? Particularly if you have been celebrating sacred festivals, spending time with family, perhaps having more candlelight than usual, eating special foods, snuggling up together to watch a favorite movie, telling and reading stories, reaching out more to […]
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January 2, 2021 From Cynthia Aldinger, Founder of LifeWays: Oh my goodness, I feel so full, perhaps overripe, with thoughts and feelings about this post I am offering today. It is meant to be about the Festival of Three Kings celebrated on January 6, which is also the day of Epiphany. My fullness arises from
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December 19, 2021 Waiting is often not easy for us. We want to be finished quickly, and see a result immediately. Waiting teaches us to deal with time. Wishes and fantasies hurry ahead into the future. To fulfill them we need time, and we must wait and overcome impatience. -Freya Jaffke, from Advent: Preparation for
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September 26, 2021 Today’s blog post was written by Cynthia Aldinger, LifeWays’ Founder and Executive Director: There we were in the Las Vegas airport with a two-hour wait for our next flight. Heads down, hearts in mourning, we were on our way for our final farewell to the earthly life of my father. Just the
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August 22, 2021 Today’s guest blog post is from LifeWays Training graduate Erin Houlihan, director of Violet Glen School in the Woods, in East Troy, WI: I got to watch my daughters jump from a cliff this summer. There are selective things in life I hope for them to experience. Physically jumping from the edge
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July 11, 2021 To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language. ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass My family just spent a long weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks. We have a small house directly on the lake that has belonged to my family since my dad was a
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July 4, 2021 We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intercession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible. — Charles Eisenstein
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March 21, 2021 Like many, Spring brings me an impulse for days-long deep cleaning. I want to wipe out all the pantries, dust all the corners, sweep under and behind all the furniture and throw open the windows! Oh, I can feel it now. Close your eyes and picture it- I know you can feel
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February 7, 2021 Rudolf Steiner urged teachers to take into sleep the meditation of their students’ highest selves in order to connect with their spiritual companions for guidance. I have practiced this both with my students and my own children. It fills me with such peace and love when I am struggling with a particular
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January 24, 2021 We had just moved from England back to the States to start a Waldorf School in Wisconsin. Our boys had just completed two wonderful years at the oldest Steiner school in Great Britain, and we were all adjusting to being back in America. Of course, that included finding a pizza place
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