#29
Yesterday's Nice Thing: Starting the Renaissance with the class
It has been almost a month since I kept this up. I have to say I am exhausted. Not because of this, but just because my life is ludicrously busy. It just is. I have a feeling that winter is going to last and last. It seems like it arrived late and so there is a good chance that we will have cold lengthening days.
I wonder if people pay such close attention to how they feel and what they think? I don't really think so. People probably just sleepwalk through life, not really caring. Perhaps they have been taught not to care.
Yesterday I did Love Sonnets with Class 7. There was a lot of laughter. The idea that you could be so in love with someone whom you never speak to... I suppose what I am trying to give to them is a different way of seeing love. Perhaps just introducing people to a different kind of conversation about love and that is best done through literature.
Right, I am just going to have my breakfast. It is pissing outside and I know I'd feel great running, but I just can't bring myself to doing it. Note to self: Do not go dancing during school time.
I must do the Parent Admin today. Get some dates together and a meeting.
And I kinda need to find a bit of inspiration again. Right. I have now realised having inspiration is tough. There are good days and bad days. And we can't wait for inspiration - we have to rely on intuition and that is only done through the cultivation of the will.
OK, well yesterday's nice thing was also knitting while listening to lecture on the Papal Schism and the Avignon Papacy. It is all fascinating. Also what I loved about yesterday was the kids were able to participate in conversations on Renassiance art because it has all been given to them over the years... from them being Class 2 - stories of the saints - and Ancient Rome when they did Jesus of Judea. And everything in between - perspective drawing, the medieval ages, zoology... all of it comes together. It is amazing to watch Steiner education all come together...
It has been almost a month since I kept this up. I have to say I am exhausted. Not because of this, but just because my life is ludicrously busy. It just is. I have a feeling that winter is going to last and last. It seems like it arrived late and so there is a good chance that we will have cold lengthening days.
I wonder if people pay such close attention to how they feel and what they think? I don't really think so. People probably just sleepwalk through life, not really caring. Perhaps they have been taught not to care.
Yesterday I did Love Sonnets with Class 7. There was a lot of laughter. The idea that you could be so in love with someone whom you never speak to... I suppose what I am trying to give to them is a different way of seeing love. Perhaps just introducing people to a different kind of conversation about love and that is best done through literature.
Right, I am just going to have my breakfast. It is pissing outside and I know I'd feel great running, but I just can't bring myself to doing it. Note to self: Do not go dancing during school time.
I must do the Parent Admin today. Get some dates together and a meeting.
And I kinda need to find a bit of inspiration again. Right. I have now realised having inspiration is tough. There are good days and bad days. And we can't wait for inspiration - we have to rely on intuition and that is only done through the cultivation of the will.
OK, well yesterday's nice thing was also knitting while listening to lecture on the Papal Schism and the Avignon Papacy. It is all fascinating. Also what I loved about yesterday was the kids were able to participate in conversations on Renassiance art because it has all been given to them over the years... from them being Class 2 - stories of the saints - and Ancient Rome when they did Jesus of Judea. And everything in between - perspective drawing, the medieval ages, zoology... all of it comes together. It is amazing to watch Steiner education all come together...
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