“Wildly Dancing Children” by Emil Nolde "Frühling ist wiedergekommen" "Spring has returned!" Sonnets to Orpheus / Part 1, Sonnet 21 / by Rainer Maria Rilke Performance at a Section salon in Ventura, CA English Translation by Bruce Donehower....
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...
“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 Section 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...
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...
John the Baptist Dear Friends, This is Lecture One and Lecture Two of a lecture series that I gave for friends and members of the Anthroposophical Society of America in April 2024. I revised these lectures for distribution to a wider public, especially for the...
"Planning Ahead" Photo by Elliot Tripp October 14, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night at which friends and members of the Section read original poetry. Poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems, if there is...
"Stone Soup" / photo bruce donehower Dear Friends, This is an edited abridgment of the commentary on Lecture Nine from the lecture cycle "According to Luke" that I gave during the Faust Branch Holy Night celebrations on January 4, 2025 on Zoom. This night was also a...
Save the Date! 2025 North American Section Conference May 9-12, 2025 / San Francisco In September 2024 the Literary Arts and Humanities Section in North America of the School for Spiritual Science sponsored an eight-day Section Conference that anchored itself in two...
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