Meeting Summaries

“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...

Poetry Night / October 12, 2024

"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...