Meeting Summaries

2025 Section Conference Highlights

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...

“Who is Rudolf Steiner . . . for our 21st Century?”

"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...

“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...

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...