Peter von Zezschwitz departed from the physical plane in his 91st year on August 20, 2016, in Durham Hospital due to kidney failure and pneumonia. He had spent the last few years bound to a wheelchair in a nursing home. On the walls of his...
Dear Friends/Fellow Members of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, I write to let you know that I’m stepping off the Council at Christmas-time (December 2016). The commitment I made to sit on council for seven years came to an end last May (2016) at the AGM...
Thank-you to Judy King In December 2016, Judy King will finish her term as Council member. (See Judy’s letter below). Judy’s strong, steady presence, her knowledge about the Society, her clear thinking, good humor, and immediate willingness to serve, will be missed. For 5 years Judy served the...
Dear Members, The meeting of the Goetheanum Executive Committee with the General Secretaries and Section Leaders was held in Dornach from November 1st to 4th. Among the points on the agenda: a) a review of the Michaelmas Conference and b) looking ahead to the 100th anniversary...
Dear members, Warm greetings! On Thanksgiving weekend, we had the annual meeting of the Council and Class Holders in Toronto. This meeting, which is supported in the budget of the Society, provides an opportunity for us to come together around a common research topic. It also gives...
(all poems are in his volume, “Under the Almond Tree”) Yaqoob was born on February 9th, 1942 in Kanpur, India. Yaqoob was born into a loving, large and vibrant family. And even though he had a particularly close relationship with his older brother, grandmother and with...
I am happy to be able to speak to you today of my sweetheart, my life companion, Léon. He left us peacefully and serenely, as he had wished, at home, surrounded by his loved ones, on Friday, June 3rd, 2016. It is impossible to speak of...
John Bach, at the August 2016 Encountering Our Humanity conference in Ottawa you gave a workshop about your research on biodynamic beekeeping. What is your background and how did you become interested in bees? I have been studying Anthroposophy for 25 years, gardening biodynamically for 15...
"I would like to acknowledge with gratitude how I felt accommodated by the ethos of the conference Encountering Our Humanity. The Ottawa event really spoke to the spirit of the Cambridge Music Conference. I really valued the autonomy I was granted. I felt the true...
At Encountering our Humanity's plenum participants were asked to share something small enough to carry with them, take care of it and make it grow. Here are some seeds. À la plénière nous avons demandé aux participants de partager quelque chose d’assez petit pour qu’ils puissent...