Sunshine of November
Rain-softened, mellow
Sunshine of waning November
Dapples the apple-leaves russet and amber and yellow—
Don't you remember?
Trailing behind him
Jocund red fungus-heads, why does he hide in December
Where we can't find him?
Changed to a frost-crimsoned, orange-faced, sleep-headed
fellow—
Blizzards behind him?
—J.C. Chadwick, “November Sun”
Recent Release
What Is This Childhood?
Finding the Spirit of Early Childhood in Language
and Creative Living with Our Families
Carol Toole
Illustrated by Eva Hoisington
This book explores the consciousness of the young child through language development, often in their own words. The child’s early utterances reveal a unity of word and experience and of experience and meaning. Children live more fully in perception than conception. Yet, speech as it unfolds eventually leads the child to abstraction, self-consciousness, and critical thinking.
This journey into childhood will deepen the quality of our attention and presence in each moment, enlivening our speech and interactions and thereby preserving our children’s sense of wonder and spiritual connection.
“A treasure-filled journey through the central role of language in the young child’s development. With insight and whimsy, Carol Toole shows us the links between perception, sound, movement, meaning, and early language explorations. The three “Rs” of rhyme, rhythm and repetition are cardinal rules for language acquisition in these years, and Carol gives her readers a wealth of hands-on ways to bring these activities home. She moves from language itself into the ways story and language support the child’s primary work: creative play.”
— Sharifa Oppenheimer, author, Heaven on Earth:
A Handbook for Parents of Young Children
Bestsellers from Torin M. Finser
Organizational Intergrity
How to Apply the Wisdom of the Body to Develop Healthy Organizations
"Organizational Integrity will give you new ideas about organizations and leadership. It's original, fresh, useful, and full of compassion. The book demonstrates the human qualities that it recommends for organizations. It carried me off into new and helpful regions of experience."
—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
School as a Journey
The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class
“Torin Finser's School as a Journey is an inspiring account of one teacher's odyssey. Along the way, he reveals the secrets of good education in any setting: effective partnership with parents, a strong sense of collegiality among the staff, and—above all—the presence of dedicated teachers who are motivated by a sincere love and respect for their students.”
—Ernest Boyer, former President, Carnegie Foundation
A Second Classroom
Parent-Teacher Relationships in a Waldorf School
“What Torin has so sensitively crafted here will give you greater simplicity and spaciousness in school community life. I highly recommend this book to all parents and teachers, but especially to those connected to Waldorf schools.”
—Kim John Payne, M.Ed., author of Simplicity Parenting
From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
The Arts and Their Mission
8 lectures, Oslo and Dornach, May 18 – June 9, 1923 (CW 276)
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If art is to be fructified by a worldview, this is the crux of the matter. Art has always arisen from a worldview. If people say, “Well, we couldn’t understand the artistic forms of Dornach,” we must reply: Can those who have never heard of Christianity understand Raphael’s Sistine Madonna? Art has always arisen from inner experience of the world. True art will, in all ages, arise from inner experience of the world. Anthroposophy seeks to lead human civilization and human culture to honest, spiritual experience of the world.
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture of May 20, 1923,
in The Arts and Their Mission (CW 276)