Dear Friends,
The quiet, anticipatory mood of Advent was shattered last week, and we approach Christmas and the Holy Nights hopefully, and with a deep yearning for peace.
We are ever grateful for our relationships with all of you, and look forward to their flourishing in the new year.
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Peace
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I'll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu
Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,
That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
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What's Happening in the Library
Note: The library will be closed Dec. 22 - 26 and reopen on Dec. 27. The library will also be closed Dec. 29 - Jan. 1, and reopen on Jan. 2.
We're missing the following issues of the Journal for Curative Education and Social Therapy, and hope someone might have copies to donate:
Michaelmas 1984 (vol.3, no. 3)
Christmas 1988 (vol. 7, no. 4)
If you're not familiar with this publication, from Camphill in Scotland, it's well worth a look! The library has issues dating from 1994, featuring themes including old age and aging; autism; ADHD; social life; and more. In 2009, the journal got a new look and a new name: Point and Circle.
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New Books & More
 The Advent Craft and Activity Book. Stories, Crafts, Recipes, and Poems for the Christmas Season, by Christel Dhom, Floris, 2012, 144 pgs.
This practical, fully-illustrated book includes creative suggestions for the whole Christmas season, from the first of December to Epiphany. Inspired by German Christmas traditions, the book offers delicious recipes, beautiful craft projects, and games, songs, poems, and seasonal lore. By the author of Making Magical Fairy-Tale Puppets, also available from the library.
Kaspar Hauser and Karl König, by Karl König,  Floris, 2012, 160 pgs.
The year 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Kaspar Hauser's birth. Karl König spoke of Kaspar Hauser in his diaries, notes, and letters; this book includes König's essay "The Story of Kaspar Hauser," as well as an essay by Peter Selg, "König, Wegman, and Kaspar Hauser."
 Slow Parenting: Caring for Children with Intention-An Inspiring Approach from the Nřkken Kindergarten, by Helle Heckmann, LILIPOH Publishing, 2012, 123 pgs. Waldorf educator Nancy Blanning characterizes this book as a "handbook for slow growing." Helle Heckmann's early-childhood center in Denmark is a model for the care of preschool-age children in a Waldorf setting. This book, generously illustrated with photos, offers us a peek at the wonder that is Nřkken.  American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner: Emerson - Thoreau - Peirce - James - Royce - Dewey - Whitehead - Feminism, edited and introduced by Robert McDermott, 2012, 294 pgs.The authors of the essays in this book see great potential for dialogue between Rudolf Steiner and the great American philosophers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom expressed in philosophical terms many of the ideas that would later emerge as integral to anthroposophy.
These are just a few of the new items recently added to our catalog! See more on the homepage of the library's online public access catalog.
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'Tis the season!
Your gifts help us to continue bridging the "digital divide"; thank you for your support this year as we continue to develop the Rudolf Steiner Library into a multidimensional 21st-century resource.
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Thanks for your interest; please stay in touch!
Warm greetings,
Judith Soleil, library director |
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