Waldorf gardens

A couple of years ago, I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to extract myself and my family from our busy life here in Waterloo to go and live in a little village on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.  In many ways, I think this year spent walking beaches and forests and learning to adjust to a different pace of life was instrumental in bringing about a sea change in my own life that just seems to keep accelerating.  Some of the insights gained on that sojourn are never far out of my mind, especially those having to do with the importance of place and space as an organizing framework for life.  The picture shows my little daughter, Mei Ling, gazing at a Waldorf garden-- a kind of learning tool and tribute to nature and place that is used to help children connect with their settings in all kinds of ways.  When I first discovered this garden, I had no idea what it was and even wrote a short story imagining that it was an altar to an unrequited love that had been set up by a ghost.  Then I met the teacher who had set the garden up (and her astonishing children).  After that, I brought my own children to the site once or twice week to see what was new.  We left a few of our own contributions there as well.  I talk about it a little bit in my book.

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