#87
Yesterday's Nice Thing: Beautiful weather and good news
Well, it was soooo beautiful yesterday that it was hard not to be in a good mood. The sun blazing down and the April still mild, it was perfect hanging out weather.
So of course I came home a fell asleep. It is impossible to not feel exhausted though if you teach. That's just the life, right?
I am here cos of the appointment with the angel, I'm reestablishing that connection. Yesterday there was a distinct sense of relief after getting some news which I had been waiting on. Another step in another direction.... I don't know where it will lead, but needs must.
I have been putting a lot of thought into the forest management suddenly. Because suddenly, it is all coming together. Class Seven is the year when everything comes together really. It is the year when everything makes sense. It is the year when the possibility of what the children may become begins to shine through.
But it is still as yet, unformed. It is almost 6 am... Yesterday I was doing straightout conservation with my class. Steiner said that human development is a mirroring of dreaminess and then consciousness. When we are born, till around the age of 42, we live life in a dream state. And then after that we recapitulate and revisit all of life's lessons, but with full consciousness. This also happens in our epochs of history. We begin, having this innate connection with nature, then lose it and now we reconnect again, but in full consciousness. And that's where we are now. Conservation has gotten it wrong in a very fundamental way - it is using the mentality which got us into this mess again untransformed to try and rescue the mess. It isn't conservation's fault, but by now even the most dyed in the wool empiricist must see that it doesn't work. I was watching a short film about an Irish farmer who firmly believes in fairies and keeps parts of his land aside for them. This is the only way I believe that we are going to go forward in the next few decades. Accepting a simpler way of life, not being rich but also not being poor, having set aside for nature, and a deep respect for all living things.
Then the breach made over the past 500 years can be healed. Then and only then. I have seen how this can be done. And it can only be done through an education system which is imbued with this consciousness.
This is long difficult work, and it is so very different from the careless vandalism which led to the mess we are in now.
It makes me so sad because Steiner education is really the solution to healing so many rifts in our psyches and the real world... and yet, yet we continue to persist in teaching our children this nonsense in mainstream education. And the biggest nonsense we persist in passing onto them is our anxiety. It is so so wrong.
Well, it was soooo beautiful yesterday that it was hard not to be in a good mood. The sun blazing down and the April still mild, it was perfect hanging out weather.
So of course I came home a fell asleep. It is impossible to not feel exhausted though if you teach. That's just the life, right?
I am here cos of the appointment with the angel, I'm reestablishing that connection. Yesterday there was a distinct sense of relief after getting some news which I had been waiting on. Another step in another direction.... I don't know where it will lead, but needs must.
I have been putting a lot of thought into the forest management suddenly. Because suddenly, it is all coming together. Class Seven is the year when everything comes together really. It is the year when everything makes sense. It is the year when the possibility of what the children may become begins to shine through.
But it is still as yet, unformed. It is almost 6 am... Yesterday I was doing straightout conservation with my class. Steiner said that human development is a mirroring of dreaminess and then consciousness. When we are born, till around the age of 42, we live life in a dream state. And then after that we recapitulate and revisit all of life's lessons, but with full consciousness. This also happens in our epochs of history. We begin, having this innate connection with nature, then lose it and now we reconnect again, but in full consciousness. And that's where we are now. Conservation has gotten it wrong in a very fundamental way - it is using the mentality which got us into this mess again untransformed to try and rescue the mess. It isn't conservation's fault, but by now even the most dyed in the wool empiricist must see that it doesn't work. I was watching a short film about an Irish farmer who firmly believes in fairies and keeps parts of his land aside for them. This is the only way I believe that we are going to go forward in the next few decades. Accepting a simpler way of life, not being rich but also not being poor, having set aside for nature, and a deep respect for all living things.
Then the breach made over the past 500 years can be healed. Then and only then. I have seen how this can be done. And it can only be done through an education system which is imbued with this consciousness.
This is long difficult work, and it is so very different from the careless vandalism which led to the mess we are in now.
It makes me so sad because Steiner education is really the solution to healing so many rifts in our psyches and the real world... and yet, yet we continue to persist in teaching our children this nonsense in mainstream education. And the biggest nonsense we persist in passing onto them is our anxiety. It is so so wrong.
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