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“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
“Rock Crystal” by Adalbert Stifter
A New Year's Eve Salon Performance Offered by the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities; Sponsored by the Faust Branch in Fair Oaks “. . . Adalbert Stifter, a significant writer . . .” -- Rudolf Steiner On New Year Eve 2020, the Section presented to the Faust Branch a re-telling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This year, the Branch again invited the Section to host the New Year Eve event, but instead of Dickens the writer chosen for 2021 was Adalbert Stifter. Here is a video of the storytelling-performance of Adalbert Stifter's "Rock Crystal." https://vimeo.com/661840502 Take...
Advent in the Secret Garden: A Report from the Fairy Tale Group by Marion Donehower
“Once Upon a Time . . .” by Marion Donehower Hello! It’s time to report again on the Fairy Tale group that meets in my...
Poetics of Place
Henry David Thoreau “At a Glance . . .” "I have met but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art...
10 Views Toward Grail & Tamalpais: A Circumambulation
“Tom's most well now and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain't nothing more to...
Philip Thatcher, North American Poet
“Reading the River” photo by Bruce Donehower "At a Glance . . .” On Saturday October 30 poet Philip Thatcher gave a reading of his poetry. Philip also...
The Genius of Language
“Mary Wollstonecraft in 1790 - 1791” by John Opie "At a Glance . . .” As mentioned in the meeting summary for October 2, this autumn we have returned to...
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