March 29, 2020 When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou Is everyone an expert at videoconferencing now? I sure do miss visiting with friends and family face to face, but I’m glad we can still talk via technology platforms like Zoom or FaceTime. Still… it just isn’t the same, […]
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January 26, 2020 “When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.” — Rudolf Steiner “Mark your steps with your feet. In the white snow, deep, so deep. Little holes, bigger holes, Watch where you go!”
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December 22, 2019 That’s what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there’s still some life and light left in the universe. It’s more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker…. Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition
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December 15, 2019 In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. – Albert Camus The darkest nights of the year approach, and people all across the northern hemisphere enter into a time of waiting for the light to return. Jews, Christians, and pagan and earth-centered faiths all mark in
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December 8, 2019 In today’s Living Arts Weekly post, we are sharing Sharifa’s second story for December, “The Fig Tree.” This second story in a series of four features the plant kingdom in the form of a watchful little fig tree. The theme of waiting and watching is a great one to share with children
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December 1, 2019 In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen
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November 24, 2019 Some of our readers are choosing to no longer celebrate Thanksgiving. It certainly has a contentious history and is steeped with cultural appropriation. If you have decided to ignore the holiday, I wish you a nice, restful long weekend with your family, and I hope you have a chance to connect in
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November 3, 2019 Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile. – William Cullen Bryant Those lovely autumn leaves are falling! Today’s Living Arts Weekly blog post looks at some ways to celebrate the brilliant tones of the autumn leaves. Creative Exploration Beeswax Candle Holders Simple to make, these are created by dipping small water balloons in
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September 22, 2019 Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. – John Ruskin The plant in this photo is amaranth, an ancient grain important to Native American tribes. This red variety, originally grown as a dye plant by the southwestern Hopi Nation, has the reddest seedlings of any amaranth known.
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July 28, 2019 The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain The challenge was to snap a photo of a moment in time and write a little reflection to help you remember the moment. And the winner is….. Maria Allen! Her photo
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