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"Please follow the signs". 

During my driving trip up north this past holiday weekend, this construction road sign caught my eye many a time and gave me pause. What signs are you following or ignoring? And what does one do when the signs are not in neon flashing lights, showing us...

The phrase 'get out of your own way' has popped up multiple times in the past few days, and thus given rise to thought and insight around it. A curious idea - that there is energy moving from within us, or perhaps through us, and that although this energy is uniquely and specifically coming...

One of the many glorious aspects of Waldorf education is the teaching of the whole and its parts, and the parts integrating into the whole. In 'non-Waldorf speak', this is often termed 'big picture and little picture thinking'.

Both ways of thinking are needed and both are of value, especially...

May arrives and life is a-buzz!  And we all – teachers, students, parents – are reminded to stay present in the mix of the buzzing, thriving ‘hive’ around us.  In any community or system, to an outsider it may appear chaotic, but there is form and flow to the...

Choices - every day they present themselves to us to be made. Our mind buzzes around the choices and options -

• Is it this way or that way?

• Is there another way?

• They made that choice, should I?

• If I do this then...

I have played in this 'mind arena' of choice many a time, both to...

"Ask and you shall receive."

Most likely, we have all heard this quote many a time. But how often do we indeed ask for help? In our day and age, to ask for or to need something is not looked upon as a strength. Self-reliance and self-sufficiency are touted, and indeed they are excellent...

As students and families return from their respective Spring Break getaways, I am struck by the moving parts that make up a community - the inhaling while others exhale, the moving, shifting and dancing we all do in order to balance and maintain. We are all a part of this whole. What I do affects...