"Mountain Musing" / photo Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, The trail to our very successful 2025 North American Section Conference had many zigs and zags and fierce entanglements along the way . . . as I discussed in the Conference summary chronology. Our "Return...
A dedicated group of Poets, Musicians, Artist-Scholars, and Coyotes met on the last day of the Conference on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. The skies opened; the sun shone brightly! The Mountain sang! A Conference Summary & Chronology...
"Build it! But will they come?" / Photo from Rudolf Steiner: Eine Bildbiografie (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2021) Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference that will occur May 9-12 in San Francisco, I gave this lecture to a mixed...
“Wildly Dancing Children” by Emil Nolde "Frühling ist wiedergekommen" "Spring has returned!" Sonnets to Orpheus / Part 1, Sonnet 21 / by Rainer Maria Rilke English Translation by Bruce Donehower. “Spring has returned! The earth is like a...
Dear Friends, At our recent Section meeting on March 29, 2025, San Francisco High School humanities teacher Joan Caldarera shared essays and poems from her students that arose from their work with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Joan's meeting presentation had the title...
"Suddenly Novalis was completely transparent to me . . . " -- Marie Steiner-von Sivers Dear Friends, Here is the Zoom recording of the lecture given on Thursday, April 10, 2025 as the final lecture in the Zoom lecture series hosted by the Anthroposophical...
“Marriage of Cupid and Psyche.” Decorations of the Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Rome. By Raphael and his workshop. Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco (May 9-12) I spoke about The Fairytale of...
“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Point Reyes Artist: Unknown. Lyrics: Leonard Cohen. San Francisco: May 9-12, 2025 OPEN CONFERENCE Conference Preview Video Click Here to Register for Entire Conference OR Choose your...
Dear Friends, I am happy to share news from the North American Youth Group of an exciting new literary initiative: Futuring Now. Editor Adeline Lyons shared this link to the online magazine, and I told her I would let the friends and members know. Click this sentence...
Sketch of "mad poet" Hölderlin “Night, the astonishing, there, the stranger to all that is human, Over the mountain-tops mournful and gleaming draws on.” — Friedrich Hölderlin, from Bread and Wine Dear Friends, At our meeting on February 8, we spent the...
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