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 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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June 25, 2023 In celebration of St. John’s Day and the Living Art of Nurturing Care, I share a festival tradition that nurtures the adult self. I hope you appreciate the gesture and invite you to perhaps take up something of it into your own Midsummer traditions. Today marks St. John’s Festival, and Summer Solstice, …
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May 21 2023 This week’s article is a lovely bit of poetry written by LifeWays’ Board President and Representative Site Coordinator, Shanah Ahmadi. She is also the Director and founder of the Rose Rock School and LifeWays Representative Center in Norman, Oklahoma. May Day Signifies school year’s end, celebrating triumphs and making amends. Revolutions round the …
April 9, 2023 Today we have a touching story from Cynthia Aldinger, founder of LifeWays, about her reflections on her mother’s recent death during this sacred time leading up to Easter. I find it to be a very human, very heartfelt experience of the new life in death that is celebrated with Easter, but also …
April 2, 2023 Festivals are universally-shared celebrations of life, and they are as diverse as the people of our beautiful planet. In celebration of the festival traditions that bring us together, we would like to share with you the experiences of several members of our LifeWays family this year, all from different walks of life …
March 12, 2023 Festivals are universally-shared celebrations of life, and they are as diverse as the people of our beautiful planet. In celebration of the festival traditions that bring us together, we would like to share with you the experiences of several members of our LifeWays family this year, all from different walks of life …
February 5, 2023 Festivals are universally-shared celebrations of life, and they are as diverse as the people of our beautiful planet. In celebration of the festival traditions that bring us together, we would like to share with you the experiences of several members of our LifeWays family this year, all from different walks of life …
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January 1, 2023 Welcome to 2023! How appropriate it is that our new year begins within a sacred festival season. However you view it~ the return of the Sun or Son~ a rebirthing of the Light in our hearts is hope-inspiring, just as the beginning of a new year is. We are renewed through our …
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December 25, 2022 May your Christmas be abundant with love, peace and hope obtained through the gathering of good company. May you imagine these gatherings the world over, simultaneously centered upon love and good will, and be imbued by the warmth of this imagination. May you be changed by the extraordinary light that is …
