[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,...
Campus A: Greetings, on behalf of Campus A and the Freies Jugendseminar, Stuttgart. I myself attended the Jugendseminar, and I am now working for Campus A, Stuttgart. We are grateful that you always accept our invitations to visit or speak to us, such as at our previous...
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, As nature, as Natura, goes through her ‘great breath’ all of humanity accompanies her. Across the northern hemisphere she breathes out life into spring. Across the south she breathes life into its autumn rest. Our own...
Continued from April edition: PH: I had a funny meeting with the founding teacher in Ottawa. Philip was his name. He was an older man, a melancholic. Paul introduced me to him and explained to him I was wondering which class my son should go into...
IN THESE TIMES In these times we weave The fabric of love With phone calls far and near; In smiles for strangers As we pass, keeping And staying six feet apart We weave the design of love In prayers and thoughts For all those in distress; For the many souls who cross, Alone, through the...