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Waldorf Talk

January / February

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Waldorf Talk

Waldorf Homeschool Series, #1

Originally published as " Waldorf Community Exchange: Wit & Wisdom of the World's Waldorf Moms " by Kytka Hilmar-Jezek and Ceridwen Anya Coit, this special newsletter was published by Waldorf Homeschoolers, W.I.S.H., Waldorf Inspired Students at Home in the year 2000. The original 6 issues came to be known as " The Millennium Collection ". Because of a high demand over the years to make this collection available, each volume has been made into an eBook as well as the book being released as a 400+ page paperback. If you would like the complete 6 issues in physical paper form, you may purchase the paperback edition through the publisher.

Copyright 2000, 2012, 2015, Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

All Rights Reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright holder except in the case of brief quotations used in critical articles or reviews.

Note to the Reader : This book is intended as an informational guide based on the authors own and personal experience. Any remedies, beliefs, approaches, and techniques described herein are meant to supplement, and not to be a substitute for, professional medical care or treatment. They should not be used for a serious ailment without prior consultation with a qualified healthcare professional.

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Connections

T his edition is a significant revision of the original series of newsletters which came to be known as "The Millennium Collection" of "The Waldorf Community Exchange". Many have benefited from the first edition as a guidebook to beginning on their journey of Waldorf Inspired Home Schooling.

While Anya and I have not communicated since 2001, our paths crossed during a time when we both needed our voices heard. Simultaneously experiencing difficulties that were of a life or death nature, we both found healing and solace in writing and expressing this part of our journeys.

We attempted to address many topics that people new to this method of homeschooling may find useful and inspirational and we wrote from the heart.

The parenting journey is one that is as unique and as intimate as the family which is embarking, and this collection was one created by us in hopes to inspire you in strength upon your own journey.

For the sake of maintaining the flow in the manner it came to us, this book is arranged exactly as the journal was.

I wish to thank and acknowledge all of the following people, some who contributed, some who edited, some who inspired and some who were just there....

Zachary, Zanna and Zynnia, Pavel Jezek, Ceridwen Anya Coit, Cyndie Kimball, Mary Joan Deutschbein, Per Kielland-Lund, Rebecca James, Honolulu Waldorf school, Three Cedars Waldorf School, Whidbey Island Waldorf School, Kristin Kjaero, Maia Cheli-Colando, Rebecca James, Lynne Summers, Elyena Lundh, Katheryn Manchip, Kiah Siobhan Scalaighe, Emile Poulsson, Margaret Meyerkort, Bruce Jackson, Eugene Schwartz, Stephen Chalmers, Mango Mama, Clement A. Miles, Wendy Pottle, Selena Fox, The Diguenos Tradition, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Mango Mama, Rainbow Rosenbloom, Lisa Renee Boisvert, Brianna & John Bennitt, Lynne Sutter, Dr. Nissan Mindel, David Pellegrino, Anu Saed, Nancy Kear-Johnson, People of the Eight Northern Pueblos along the Rio Grande in New Mexico, Lame Deer and the Lakota People, Rudolf Steiner, the wonderful and fabulous Library and Internet and the wonderful mothers of the Waldorfhomeschoolers yahoo groups discussion list, who sent letters, questions and shared their lives with us.

From My Heart To Yours...

W aldorf Talk (Previously published as Waldorf Community Exchange or W.C.E.) is a holistic journal for mothers inspired by Waldorf Education, Homeschooling, and, to varying degrees, Anthroposophy (some readers may have little or no interest in the latter).

If you are a Christian who is offended by the mention of more ancient (sometimes called Pagan) ways, this journal is not for you. If you are a Pagan who feels attacked by a Christian prayer or the lighting of Sabbath candles, or an Anthroposophist who is up in arms over the thought of family beds or long term nursing, it is also, simply, not for you.

This is not a "religious" publication, but it is one meant to help you contact your own unique spiritual inner voice and inspire your own inner work.

We believe:

in the value of traditional womens work, while we also value the rights women have fought to attain.

in the shared strength and struggle of women. We acknowledge that there are injustices that still exist for many of usbut we are not about anger. We hope to be about healing.

in the power of grassroots movements and our right to live our own lives in our own unique ways.

in simplicity - that less is more, and that caring for the Earth is not only necessary family work but as good for our inner selves, as it is for the planet.

that childhood should be as joyous as possible without creating the false impression that life exists without both work and struggles.

that children should grow in wonder of the natural rhythm of the year, allowed to simply breathe and be while unfolding into who they naturally are.

that play is the true work of childhood which is sadly undervalued by modern society.

that family life is a journey to be shared heart-to-heart through both joy and adversity, regardless of how you define your family.

If you believe in synthesis, are able to take what you want and leave the rest for those who feel otherwise, then you will find here a sense of warm connection - an offering of thoughts and joys to inspire your own personal path.

Then this journal is for you.

Welcome...

T he Waldorf Community Exchange began as the Waldorf Homeschoolers' Exchange; a website of shared experiences inspired by the WE_HS internet mailing list for Waldorf Homeschoolers. Within a few months, a need for another group was discovered and the WaldorfHomeschoolers group was born. From the activity and correspondence with list owner, Kytka Hilmar-Jezek this journal came to be manifest and within a few months its monthly journals which, over time, were less and less home school specific. This was at about the same time that WISH (Waldorf Inspired Students at Home) began production and mailing of its bimonthly bulletins.