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Eventually.
Only the impossible
Survives . . .”
— Percy MacKaye
“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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Report from the Section Fairytale Group / December 2025 / by Marion Donehower
Coyote at the American River Marion Donehower facilitates the Fairytale Group that is an integral part of our Section work in Northern California. Here, Marion summarizes the group's activities in 2025 and gives her perspective on the year. Marion is a member of the Visual Arts Section in addition to our Section. An Owl winks in the shadow A lizard lifts on tiptoe breathing hard The whales turn and glisten plunge and Sound, and rise again Flowing like breathing planets In the sparkling whorls Of living light. -- Gary...
The Community Begins: Rudolf Steiner’s “Theosophical” Years, 1900-1914
Dear Friends, In November 2025 the Anthroposophical Society in America hosted three one-hour sessions on the topic...
All Souls Poetry Night / November 2025
"Map Discovered on Cliffs Above the Pacific Ocean" / photo bdonehower Dear Friends, Last year we began what I hope...
An Exciting New Literary Initiative from the North American Youth Section
Dear Friends, I am happy to share news from the North American Youth Section of an exciting new literary initiative: Futuring Now. Editor Adeline Lyons shared...
Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st Century
Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953) Dear Friends, This is an edited and revised version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom to an...
Rudolf Steiner’s “First Address” / Vienna, 1888
Artwork: "Green Snake" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Dear Friends: Here is a video of a Section meeting that occurred on March 6, 2021. This 2021...
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