This was written by a high school student, working on persuasive essays. He was asked to choose and support an argument through this essay. Andres, you have convinced me!

This  is a meditation on our unique school seen through the poetry of our diverse students.

In 1924, 5 years after the first Waldorf School opened its doors, Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures regarding education.

Lost in my thoughts of the day, taking a moment to enjoy this newly arrived fall light as it filters through the slowly shedding limbs of trees forming the canopy covering the path, I am snapped out of my day dream world at the abrupt sound of someone coming around the bend on their way down the path. 

I began working with the Immune Sequence in October 2019 when I offered a course through Eurythmy Spring Valley to the public to prepare for the cold and flu season.

The idea popped up in a staff meeting one Tuesday afternoon while we sat, looking at each other with blank faces and wondering how we were going to go on as a school in the time of Covid 19.

At the beginning of our mandated sheltering-in-place as COVID19 spread through New York, I was stumped at how I could continue to bring the content of eurythmy to my students through an online platform.

To what do we feel connected?  Of all the specifics that make up our daily rhythms and life realities, which do we connect to in a direct way. 

Just months ago, we were preparing our young people for a world we thought we recognized. Since then, the global pandemic brought pieces of society as we knew it to a screeching halt, interrupting social and economic activity, and turning education remote.

We look around our campus and see beauty everywhere, our gardens bursting with life and color, with lessons our students left behind as seeds and soil months ago.

When Demeter, the Greek Goddess of harvest, grain, and fertility, lost her daughter, Persephone, the Goddess of springtime and vegetation, she cast the world into a great famine.