May 3, 2020 Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Years ago I was mentoring a lovely mother who was enrolled in one of our LifeWays training programs, not as a professional caregiver or teacher, but as a mother interested in learning more about child development. Brilliant, educated and a social […]
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March 22, 2020 Patience and fortitude conquer all things. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Those of you who practice a Christian faith tradition probably recognize this painting depicting the story in which Jesus and his disciples go out in a boat and there is a severe storm. Jesus remains calm, even takes a nap, while the
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March 8, 2020 “Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” –Dr. Albert Szent- Györgyi “Education innovation” – whenever I hear these words, I cringe. Not because I’m against innovation – quite the contrary! Real innovation in education engages the learner in potent and powerful ways to learn creatively, think
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August 11, 2019 Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. – Harold S. Kushner As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, Rahima and I are in Xi’an, China teaching in LifeWays’ first Birth to Three course. I have learned so many
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August 4, 2019 Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. -Saint Basil This week finds Rahima and me in China, teaching for LifeWays! We’ll hopefully have lots of things to share with you from this wonderful trip, where Rahima
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April 21, 2019 Looking down at my hands, finally I understand The empty space has changed somehow and it’s filled with Hallelujah now. — Carrie Newcomer, “The Point of Arrival” I walk through a patch of woods at the farm where my husband and his work crew cleared buckthorn last fall. There’s a pile of
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March 3, 2019 The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. – Conan O’Brien The theme for this month of March in our Living Arts Through the Seasons online course for parents is Clarity. We, like the groundhog, have nestled in all winter long and
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February 3, 2019 There is such a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so that they can’t get away. –Dave Attell As I write this, we are in the middle of a cold snap in the Midwest. Well, that might be a bit of an understatement. It’s way beyond the usual frigid and
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January 13, 2019 “The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.” – Faith Popcorn, the trend forecaster who coined the term “cocooning” in 1981 This time of year right after the winter holidays, while darkness is still upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, my tendency is to hunker down. Judging from all the
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December 30, 2018 “Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.” — Rudolf Steiner Here we find ourselves at the end of the year. For many of us, that leads us to ponder what sort of New Year’s resolution we should
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