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Meeting Summaries

“Where are the Youth?” / Joan Caldarera

  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...
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“Eros and Fable” by Novalis

“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...
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Rudolf Steiner’s “First Address” / Vienna, 1888

Artwork: "The 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 meeting and the meeting April 22, 2022 were seed events intended to prepare the garden ground for the 2024...
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The Poet Friedrich Hölderlin

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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