Santa Lucia: Bearing Light in the Darkest Days

Santa Lucia's day is December 13, she is a beloved saint celebrated in Sweden, Italy and some parts of Europe. The name Lucia means light. Santa Lucia comes bearing light, nourishment and care in the darkest time of the year. 

Waldorf schools have a tradition of celebrating her day in the second grade at Waldorf schools, the year children learn about saints and the good deeds they performed. Santa Lucia appears on that day (she is a second grader) wearing a crown of candles bearing nourishment and light, often pastry or bread. She is accompanied by her star children classmates and singing fills the school.

Santa Lucia is especially honored in Sweden, where candlelit processions and traditional songs blend Christian devotion with local customs. At home, families whose roots include this celebration often continue it, Others have been drawn to its beauty and have adopted it into their seasonal rhythms. Waldorf schools embraced Santa Lucia through the sharing of local traditions that gradually spread and became part of the school's festival life.

Although she is most prominently recognized in the Catholic Church, especially in Italy, Scandinavia and parts of Europe, her feast day is also observed by Lutheran, Anglican and some Eastern Orthodox communities. Her story has a wide, cross-denominational reach, even though her formal canonization belongs to Catholic tradition.

Elsa Beskow is a Swedish author and illustrator of children's books is known for her beautiful illustrations and sweet nature based stories. She lived between February 11, 1874 and June 30, 1953. 

Autumn Festivals and Celebrations

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The observation of the rhythm of the year with celebration and festival life is universal among humans everywhere and of every age. Since the beginning of time, there is evidence that all peoples have celebrated the rhythm of life, returning to ritual and routine year after year, marking time, showing reverence and connecting with each other and the world around us through the cycle of the year.

Universal Quality

Many cultures share common roots in the origins of celebration. Foods used in celebration often reflect the local harvest, or what has been put up from the harvest. Spices are often associated with seasons and celebration. Think of warming allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon in the fall. Sometimes foods are related symbolically to the celebration, by color, shape or quality. Song and dance often accompany celebrations along with performances of varied sorts.

Why have Festivals and Celebrations?

Festival life is an important and meaningful element of Waldorf education and parenting communities. Celebrations help carry children, families, teachers and communities through the year with preparation and anticipation of what is to come, through song, story, movement, gathering and use of seasonal materials for practical and decorative use, and of course, specific foods.

Festivals and celebrations provide homeschooling families regular moments in the year to come together and celebrate. Sometimes festivals are celebrated through a playgroup and can be a means for fostering community for its members. Schools often open their doors to welcome the broader community for festival celebrations. Online bloggers offer pictures of celebrations and descriptions of how to pull it together.

How Many Festivals to Celebrate? 

The number of days for possible celebration is limitless and may seem overwhelming. In trying to decide which festivals to take up consider the mood of the season, what is the essential element? What speaks to you? What are your family’s beliefs and traditions? What traditions would you like to create or deepen that resonate deep within for you? What is celebrated in your community? What Festivals feel like social ones to you? Which ones feel more private or family oriented? How can you bring them about?

Mood of Autumn

Let’s begin with the mood of the season. In autumn, we continue with the harvest that began in summer, preserving food for winter through canning, drying and freezing. 

Autumn festivals begin as sustenance building, strength and courage making, and then move us through the dying and dropping of the leaves, with seeds dispersing. The veils between the worlds grows thin, we remember the ancestors, offering them sustenance and celebrating life and death with All Hallows Eve, All Saints and All Souls Days, the Day of the Dead. 

We then move through the darkness of the year towards festivals of light, festivals of finding the light within and carrying it out into the world, in the cold dark night of winter, fanning our flames to create and sustain warmth for all the world. 

One morning we awaken to find the world covered in crystals and note that Jack Frost has made his fist visit. We are in the season of Autumn.

September :: October :: November

These are the autumn celebrations and festivals traditionally celebrated at Waldorf schools and by Waldorf homeschoolers in the U.S., with some favorite resources for building, deepening and nourishing a festival life at home or in community:

Autumn Equinox :: varies with movement of the cosmos
Michaelmas ~ the Feast Day of St. Michael, the archangel :: Sept 29th
Feast Day of St. Francis ~ patron saint of animals :: Oct 4th
Canadian Thanksgiving :: the 2nd Monday in October
All Hallows Eve ~ Halloween ::  Oct 31st
Día de los Muertos ~ Days of the Dead :: Oct 31st- Nov 2nd
All Saints Day :: Nov 1st
All Souls Day :: Nov 2nd
Martinmas :: Nov 11th  ~ the feast day of St. Martin of Tours, often celebrated with lantern making and lantern walks, Weckmann recipes, photos, songs, story. 
U.S. Thanksgiving :: the 4th Thursday of November
Advent :: begins on the 4th Sunday before Christmas. Just getting started with Advent? 
Saint Nicholas :: Dec 6th
Santa Lucia Day :: Dec 13th
The Advent Spiral Garden :: usually takes place at the start of Advent

Christmas is rapidly approaching and the Winter Solstice brings the end to fall.

Some Favorite Resources for Autumn

All Year Round by Ann Druitt, Christine Frynes-Clinton and Marije Rowling

The Children’s Year by Stephanie Cooper, Christine Frynes-Clinton and Marje Rowling

Festivals, Family and Food by Diana Carey

Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner

In the Light of a Child by Michael Hedley Burton

The Harvest Craft Book by Thomas Berger 

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Planning Helps You Cultivate the Life You Want

Are You Seeking More?
Many of us are drawn to Waldorf ways because we are seeking more. 
More warmth.
More beauty in our daily lives.
More time for what is meaningful.

We long for deeper connections, to the natural world and to each other.

Perhaps you’ve always wanted to organize a Michaelmas gathering or celebrate the four weeks of Advent…yet you feel like you need to catch up before you can begin.

You don't need to catch up.
You can begin right where you are. 

And you don’t need to do more ~ you need to do less, with care. 

Some years ago, I created a summer class for planning. because I needed it. I had sketched out my own year for homemaking and homeschooling, season by season and it helped me stay grounded.

It grew out of my Morning Garden days, where I learned again and again - that rhythm brings freedom… and that less really is more ~ especially when it’s shaped with clarity and intention. 

Planning with the seasons allows you to cultivate the life you long to live, in small, steady steps.

It may look like:
• A nature walk on a crisp morning
• A pretty table set with candlelight
• An ongoing handwork project that echoes the mood of the season
• A birthday celebration, a lantern walk
• Teaching Main Lessons in sync with the rhythm of the year

All of this is possible ~ with that first step - a plan. 

These things don’t happen by accident in our noisy, fast-paced world.
They must be tended, slowly, surely and deliberately.
They are built up over time, with care. 

Planning is a Gift to Yourself

A gift of spaciousness.
A gift to live intentionally aligned with your values.

Join me!

Over the next six weeks in Get Organized :: Sketch It Out! we'll craft a plan for the coming homemaking and homeschooling year.

Give yourself the gift of time and presence by being organized before it happens! 

You deserve that much and more!

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Favorite Picture Books for Spring

In the Waldorf kindergarten, there are no books, it's all spoken word, shared heart to heart, with storytelling and puppetry. At home, the act of snuggling up with our child to read a story can be a very sweet and comforting ritual. I have fond memories of my mom reading to me, as well as warm memories of reading to my own children. I bet you do too. 

Stories, especially stories about daily life, are a cherished part of family life.

As we settle into vibrant, lush, greenness of Spring, taking a moment during the day to settle in with a warm cup of tea and a good story can be just the refreshment needed ~ a peaceful in-breath amid the busyness of the day. 

It’s always hard to choose just a few favorites as there are so many wonderful books to choose from, and each family has its own special favorites. All of these books have beautiful illustrations. Here are a few of our family favorites to cosy up and read aloud in the Spring: 

Dibble and Dabble  by Dave and Julie Saunders

Dibble and Dabble mistake a cat's tail for a furry snake and set out to warn their friends. With playful language and suspense, we join their quest. 

Miss Rumphius  by Barbara Cooney

A timeless favorite, this book offers inspiration, life wisdom and guidance from grandfather to granddaughter in the simplest yet most profound and timeless way. 

Pelle's New Suit  by Else Beskow

The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers

A beautiful picture, through story, of the rhythm of the year, with sweet illustrations and a dreamlike mood, it brings the rhythm of nature to life  through the lens of Mother Nature's Root children. A sweet celebration for young children.

Spring  by Gerda Muller

A simple, lovely board book, with rich, detailed illustrations, depicting the springtime activities of daily life for children, with baby animals, blossoms and play. It has no text. 

Make way for Ducklings  by Robert McCloskey

"Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. But when the busy streets of Boston become too risky for her and her family to navigate, the local police step in to make sure Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings—Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack—make it to their new home safely. A beautiful portrayal of one duck family’s devotion and perseverance, this picture book is a wonderful representation of how families overcome hard times together and a compassionate reminder to trust in the goodness of humanity." ~  from Barnes & Noble

What are your favorite books to read in the Springtime?

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What is Benign Neglect?

The word "benign" means harmless. "Benign neglect" is a style of parenting that involves keeping the child in one's consciousness without hovering. For example, let's say I'm washing the dishes and my toddler is nearby playing. I may not have my eyes on him, yet I know he is there playing. The space is safe and I trust my child to take risks. It's a sort of non attention, attention that involves an environment conductive to free play, trust in our children, and a smidgeon of intuition, trusting ourselves to know when to step in, and knowing when to hang back.

Trust in the child is the key word. Children who are supported to take risks, with exploring or climbing or trying something new learn from their efforts. They may not succeed the first time, yet in trying again and again, they eventually succeed. Respect for their efforts as part of the healthy growth process is a form of benign neglect. 

When we see a tower of blocks waving and looking like its going to crash, we don't run in and rescue our child from the blocks falling down. We respect our child's play, and ability to handle the crash and then try again.  

Children who have this opportunity to have a relationship with their body and their world that allows them explore develop confidence in their selves and in their capacities and grow up to be adults who are willing to take risks and try new things, and become very good at solving problems, because they are not afraid to try and fail. 

It's a term that was once used commonly in Waldorf mothering circles to describe trusting our children when they play. It may seem like a contrast to today's hovering and constant surveillance of children.

As a child of the "Go out and play!" generation, I have so many fond memories of walking along stone walls, running in the woods, being away until it was time for lunch or dinner.

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Lantern Walks in November: a Lovely Tradition

While I grew up Catholic, I didn't know that people celebrated Martinmas and hadn't experienced a lantern walk. I only learned about it when a German friend gathered a small group of friends and suggested we do a lantern walk. We did, and it was lots of fun. Over the years I learned more about Martinmas as a Waldorf festival and have been fortunate to attend and host many lantern walks. When I began working with nursery age children I began using small mason jars to create these little lanterns for smaller hands, rather than the larger ones I had used with the kindergarten and early grades children. We've always used real candles, even with the littles. Children have so few opportunities to experience fire, carry real fire in their little lanterns, that this is a special treat and responsibility at this time of year. I'm not sure what is more fun, the preparation of the lanterns, the streaming light in the dark woods at night or the pot luck afterwards, it's all quite lovely.

Trust and Striving

At some time during our many years of motherhood, it is not unheard of to experience stress and frustration, and sense a wide gap between the vision we had for life as a family and the daily reality of living with children.

Let's take a look at daily life with children. 

Do you have reasonable expectations? 

Are you asking too much of yourself... striving to be chief, cook, bottle washer, seamstress, handwork expert, woodworker, knitter, crocheter and singer?  That is when you are not out planting or harvesting in the garden, or thrifting or blogging? If we hadn't had enough messages to do it all and be it all, social media came along to give us images of what perfection looks like in mothering and family life. Yet we know it's not really like that. We have hard days, hard weeks, hard phases. A typical day may contain moments of joy and frustration for us as well as for our children. And yet we ask so much of ourselves.  

Can you be compassionate with yourself?

First, I want to emphasize the hard work you do - every single day - and acknowledge the sacrifice, self discipline and personal growth that comes with running a household. I am so grateful to my mom for her ceaseless enthusiasm and hard work, thank you Mom!  Thank you to all the moms who make life work! 

It is far more of an effort than a full time job. It's more like three jobs: cook, housekeeper, nanny or driver, oh maybe four and teacher/guide too, and its compensation is not in such a well recognized and highly regarded form in the outer world. No paycheck, no promotions. No time off.

Often it is at that moment when everything is at what seems like the very worst, that our greatest strides are being made ~ of human growth - for we as parents are growing human beings and our children are helping us grow to be more fully human. It is in those dark moments that truths tend to emerge. With trust and striving we find our way back to the table to clean up one more time.

Warmly,

    

Illustration is  A Mother's Days, by Jessie Wilcox Smith, 1902

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Getting Started with Waldorf at Home

If you're considering Waldorf homeschooling or wanting to bring Waldorf  into your home life and parenting, there's one step to take, one thing you need to do.

The key to starting and maintaining Waldorf homeschooling, homemaking, and parenting is the same: begin by building a strong foundation of living daily life together, build up a healthy rhythm for daily life. This includes parenting and homemaking. With strong family rhythms for parenting and homemaking, there's more time for homeschooling and incorporating those wonderful Waldorf activities into our lives. 

This foundation first takes into account everyday tasks like laundry, bathing, meal preparation and cleanup, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, window washing, pet care, face washing, hand holding, and diaper changing  ~ all the caregiving activities that fill our days.

A healthy home rhythm is at the heart of this foundation. Rhythm is the key to a solid foundation. 

Begin by crafting and implementing a rhythm that supports your family's needs. There is no one size fits all with rhythm. The best rhythm for you is the one that serves your family's unique needs. 

While it's true that establishing this rhythm takes self discipline, persistence and patience, a strong home rhythm provides strength, freedom and spaciousness to daily life. A strong healthy rhythm helps carry the day. It takes some effort to get started, and it takes time to build up a good rhythm, once it takes hold, a good rhythm provides a momentum of its own, and frees us to be more present in the moment. 

The saying is true, rhythm replaces strength! 

Warmly,

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One of Those Mothering Things

You know those things that just sort of happen when you become a mom?  I'm talking about habits and daily life with eating, clothing, sleeping. The body shifts, clothes cease to fit in the same way, meals become central and sleep is essential in a way I never imagined it could be. 

I'm an early riser. 

I wasn't before I became a mom.

It just happened, the morning with its freshness became my time. The morning is the quietest time of day. The house is quiet. Everyone is asleep. The animals are still pretty mellow. I have grown to love it so much that I'm still a morning person, and still wake early, even through my children are grown. 

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I became an early riser after I started falling asleep early. During pregnancy, my body just took over, and I began falling asleep shortly after dinner. I also craved cake after dinner, even though I wasn't much of a cake eater before pregnancy. Going to bed early became my new normal, and in turn, I started rising early. It was usually pretty easy, although I've definitely gone through phases where I've had to push myself to maintain an early bedtime. When the children were little, our evenings had a nice flow; I'd put them to bed, take a bath, and read in bed for a while before sleeping.

The teen years brought new challenges, and keeping myself awake at night to be with them was one of them. My early mornings remained because they have become so important to me. It's my time. The day is fresh. It's almost meditative, to take time, make my coffee with care and conscious presence, and enjoy the solitude. It charges me up for the day. 

Over the years of mothering and homemaking, having a good rhythm has helped me enormously and indeed, it has changed many times over the years to accommodate the changes as the needs of my children and family have shifted over the years. A healthy rhythm with young children is different from a healthy rhythm with teens. I've tweaked our rhythm many times over the years.

Yet still rhythm has helped me plan meals, do laundry, take care of housework, and have time, with a feeling of spaciousness to it, to have regular predicable activities with my children. 

It takes time, persistence, and regular adjustments through changes to maintain a healthy rhythm that works. Yet, the rewards are many. Establishing healthy home rhythms has made my life easier, reducing the number of decisions I need to make. A plan that can be put into action helps the days, weeks, and seasons flow more smoothly, creating a sense of spaciousness of time.

I am so grateful for that time. Rhythm has made it much easier to be present in the moment, rather than rushing to get things done with too little time. Rhythm has been so beneficial to me that elements of the routine I established years ago still buoy me along. 

If you find that the days are flying by and you're constantly struggling to catch up, take heart. It is possible to develop a rhythm that meets your unique needs and creates a sense of spaciousness in your days.

Begin by creating a simple morning routine that nurtures you. 

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The Child is Born with a Sense of Wonder

 Fifty-five years ago, Woman’s Home Companion published an article from by Rachel Carson called Help Your Child to Wonder:

“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and dis-enchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gifts from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” 

Ways to Keep Alive a Sense of Wonder:

:: Spend time in nature, not with facts. but to experience nature, which will enliven the “sense” of wonder.

:: Take time to be present in the moment.

:: Look up at the sky.

:: Value the daily and the ordinary, “What lovely clouds this morning.”

:: Find joy in the ordinary, in housekeeping and chores, sing or hum as you work. 

:: Find the value and the goodness, in situations that do not work out as planned, ” I wonder if maybe we were meant to take a wrong turn because now we can see the rainbow.”

:: Let children get bored, boredom is the springboard for wonder and great play and projects.

:: Be the example and model wonder, “Gee, I wonder…” “Hmnn…” and wait when a child asks a question.

:: Remember that wonder is all around us and reveals itself to us when we are free of fear, safe and silent.

              “Wisdom begins in wonder.” ~ Socrates

Trust that children know, children are capable of asking questions and finding the answers and trust that it is within you too.

How do you keep your sense of wonder alive? 

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The Wisdom of Wonder

 A  little child looks up at the sky and asks, “Mama, why is the sky blue" Mama responds “hmmn…. I wonder.”

There is a pause. The child gets quiet and turns inward. Silence. The child looks up with a knowing smile, “I know, the sky is a blanket for the earth, to tuck it in at night and keep it cozy,” to which to mother nods.

Another child asks his dad, “Why do birds sing?” The dad pauses and responds, “Gee, I wonder…” He waits. The child muses on it for a few moments and comes up with an answer, “I know, it’s their way of talking to each other.”

Children come to understanding through wonder. Curiosity, inquisition, engagement and enthusiasm flow out of wonder and in turn inspire more wonder and understanding. It is this spirit of inquiry that leads to wisdom, the ability to ask a question, hold the question and wait for the answer to come, which leads to more wondering, more enthusiasm and curiosity, a rich and juicy life, full of wonder, awe and wisdom.

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Why I Don't Celebrate Candlemas with Candle Making

My reasons are pretty simple.

Breathing time.

I love the Christmas season. 

Our Christmas celebrations begin with Advent, continue through the 12 days of Christmas, on to the Epiphany. I keep Christmas until Candlemas, when the last of Christmas is packed up and put away. 

I like having a breather between Christmas and Easter. It feels like a good outbreath, to relax and sink back into the daily rhythm of life. I find comfort, solace and renewal in the quiet time. That's why I don't celebrate Candlemas. I need the outbreath. 

I do embrace Groundhog day.

It's fun. It speaks to young children. 

Young children anticipate the coming of this special day. We wait and wonder. Will the groundhog come out of his home in the earth? Will it be sunny? If it is, will he see his shadow and scurry back inside? 

We wait to hear the news, to learn whether or not the groundhog has seen his shadow, almost more fun than learning how much winter is left. 

With the littles we go outside and stomp on the earth, telling Mother Earth," it's time to wake up!" 

I like to think of this time of year as the stirring of the year, a stirring that comes from deep in the belly of the earth. Depending on where we live in the northern hemisphere, the earth is beginning to soften, the hens are beginning to lay and the cows are giving more milk. 

We've had celebrations of light since last fall. The light culminated in the birth of the Child of Light. Now, I like to let it be dark and quiet, a sort of post partum period.

As a Catholic, I appreciate the religious aspect of the Churching of Mary, the Churching of women as an ancient postpartum blessing.

As a homeschooler, I like to include Saint Brigid of Ireland in 2nd grade, and revisit her as Celtic goddess Brigit around 7th and 8th grades.

As a midwife, I love everything about Brigid and Brigit. 

Yet I'm not going to make candles indoors in the winter. I don't really get the making of candles indoors in winters. It's too dangerous. If you don't know me in real life, you should know that I'm pretty comfortable with risk taking. However I am not comfortable with the risk of burning down my house dipping candles in the winter. Beeswax, if heated too much, ignites easily. Ask me how I know.

I prefer to dip candles outdoors in summer or autumn. It's much safer that way.

In the reflection that comes with writing this, it's not Candlemas per se that I won't be contemplating. It's making candles central to the day that I'll pass up. It's also the focus on light. We've kindled our inner lights, carried them through the dark to the birth of the Child of Light. The light has become embodied. It's within us. It's time to look within and see what's stirring there. I like the quiet time, to enjoy the dark, and be open to the stirrings within. 

As an old timer Waldorf homeschooler, I have observed new trends arise and take off. Candlemas is one of them. It must be appealing to something within the human psyche. I'm not sure what the deeper meaning is in the grand scheme of the year. There's a lot in there, as the midpoint in the rhythm of the year, right at the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, a cross quarter holiday.

There's a long and rich history of celebration of this day with Imbolc, the goddess Brigit, the Churching of Mary, the act of the churching of Mary and what it means for all birthing women, and the Irish Saint Brigid, with her origins in the Celtic goddess Brigit. I can see it as religious, or pagan, or even just a time to dip candles. I haven't quite made sense of how the many different rich aspects of this day weave together and what is the deeper meaning imbued in them. I'll keep pondering it. 

For now I'll  observe and continue to dip candles outdoors in the summer or fall, and think of Candlemas as a day of blessing the postpartum woman and shining the light on the power and glory of childbirth. 

How about you? 

How do you make meaning of Candlemas? 

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