Ruminations

Teaching students from home for the first time in my thirty-year career, I have had a lot of time to sit quietly and let the startling circumstances of the moment course through me and awaken feelings and thoughts. I soon felt that sharing these ruminations would be a useful way to give something to my colleagues and friends. Just three days into the distance learning era, the first missive went to my Waldorf School of Princeton colleagues, and then to others whom I suspected might appreciate an attempt at processing the experience. This was the first of what I intend to be a regular series of reflections. I called it “random ruminations” at first, but they really aren’t random. They arose, and continue to arise, out of a specific moment in time and in relation to the specific questions facing educators and students of the spirit everywhere.So the name was simplified.

Here are the Ruminations. Please remember that my intention is to stir people into their own reflections, not to propose some official view of anything.

Enjoy.