The Living Arts: Nurturing

Living Arts Weekly: Community

March 17, 2019 In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. – Marianne Williamson Today is the one-year anniversary of the Living Arts Weekly blog!  What a fitting theme for our anniversary issue — community.  And […]

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Living Arts Weekly: Energy

March 10, 2019 I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.  –Brené Brown Caregiving, in any form, can be exhausting. Roughly 30% of the staff in early childhood

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Living Arts Weekly: Clarity

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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Living Arts Weekly: Thawing

February 24, 2019 She turned to the sunlight and shook her yellow head, and whispered to her neighbor: “winter is dead.” -A.A. Milne As I look out my window to a marshmallow world of snowdrifts that are over my head, I shake my head at the theme of this blog post. But I know some

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Living Arts Weekly: Reading

February 17, 2019 To learn to read is to light a fire — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Who doesn’t love to curl up with a beloved child on their lap and a book to share?  In today’s Living Arts Weekly blog post, we celebrate the written word.  One common misconception of Steiner-based care of the young

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Living Arts Weekly: Loving

February 10, 2019 “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo   It may be a Hallmark holiday, but I love Valentine’s Day.  Just a day about love — speaking it, showing it, and sharing it.  A day

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Living Arts Weekly: Hoping

January 27, 2019 Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.  – Desmond Tutu Parenting, teaching, and caregiving are vocations that require the long view, with love at the core. Once upon a time, my eldest son went to a new school for first grade. He had just

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Living Arts Weekly: Sustaining

January 20, 2019 Then you would read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness  — A.A Milne, Winnie the Pooh   At an estate sale in a dusty attic, I sorted through a pile of old books. I just love old books. The practicality of a Kindle

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Living Arts Weekly: Cocooning

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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