It's been a week of quieting and excitement. It began on Sunday with a wrapping up of four weeks of Inner Advent work with Lynn Jericho...

The gift of light I thankfully hold And pass to my neighbor its shining gold That everyone may feel its glow,     Receiving and g...

Snow, snow, snow! From heaven falls the snow. The children now have lots of fun It's snowing, snowing on and on. ...

The Issue of Toys, Children, and Materialism By Mrs. M, also known as Marsha Johnson, December 2004 ~ re-printed with permission S...

Santa Lucia is another Festival of Light, in the Waldorf Calendar of Festivals, celebrated on December 13, which was, under the Julian cale...

An excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's Lecture in the Rudolf Steiner Archives The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun ...

~ Adapted from a German Legend Once upon a time, in the deep forest, there grew a little pine tree, and its leaves were long, slender, gr...

I am so inspired by the lists that Brooke posted over at Brooke: confessions of an urban earth mama  for the days of December, that I ...

Today I am delighted to share a guest piece from Danielle Epiphani on how she brings meaning to the season. For us it's re...

This post is the first in a series on our seasonal or festival life that begins with Thanksgiving (in the United States) and ends with Epiph...

Today I am grateful to Sally over at Fairy Dust Teaching for the inspiration of Trader Joe. He arrived in the Morning Garden this week w...

So I finally added photos to my last post on Martinmas here . Here is the recipe for Weckmann. Formed out of sweet yeast dough, this man goe...