Once, when Paul was asked to tell his autobiography, he answered: “Well…I was born at a very early age but I can’t remember a thing about it…” Paul John Hodgkins was born on January 31, 1947, in Wolverhampton near Birmingham, England, into a working class family....
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, What is biography? We all journey through our waking hours immersed in the flow of our lives. It is only on occasion that life confronts us and we are called to attend to the organizing patterns...
[Adapted from my brief talk given on Friday, May 15, 2020 at the Anthroposophical Society in Canada Annual General Meeting and Conference.] [caption id="attachment_6064" align="alignleft" width="286"] Robert McKay[/caption] Like many of you, I am on a voyage of discovery with the Foundation Stone Meditation and I don’t...
Every morning for 9 weeks, a group of five women – Susan Koppersmith, Esther Chase, Hannah Hidson, Monica Boyd and myself — studied the second panel of the Foundation Stone Meditation in preparation for the May AGM. We read the insights of major writers, supported...
Mark, thanks for facilitating our recent Society’s first virtual AGM/Conference. You have had much experience working with online groups. Could you say something more about this? [caption id="attachment_6058" align="alignright" width="221"] Mark McGivern[/caption] You’re welcome. I think the AGM was a great event for the society. As...
[caption id="attachment_6059" align="alignleft" width="411"] Screenshot from one of our Zoom meetings[/caption] Around mid-March when our entire country was beginning to shelter-in-place, Esther Chase and I started a daily videoconference check-in at 8:30 am every morning. Our plan was to work with the Foundation Stone Meditation to...
Greetings Friends, As we navigate this unique time together and recognize the far reaching effects of being separated as human beings, we at Canada’s major Waldorf teacher training institutions are meeting a situation that is asking us to think outside the box for new ways to...
Today I boast no tongue of flame, can only hold hope deep in my heart as the import of the world’s travail threatens to destroy so much. So much. But listen! I hear an unseen voice, a whisper in the air…. “Never despair! Keep on with your spiritual work. Try and try again. Be as thoughtful,...