A Relative of All That Is

Dear Members of The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara Community,

To support your child and her/his community, please give money to WSSB's Annual Campaign. Our goal this year is $60,000 with 100% school-wide participation (parents, faculty/staff, and board). Let’s make this happen for the sake of the kids and the faculty and staff who hold them!

Remember that fundraising covers 10% of our total budget, bridging the gap between revenue and expenses. Click here now to support your community:

https://waldorfsantabarbara.org/annual-giving-fund

(And thank you very much to those who have already donated!)


With gratitude,

The WSSB Admin Team

PS A few thoughts for your weekend:

1).

“Essentially we do not really have the right to talk about ‘normality’ or ‘abnormality’ in a child’s inner life…One does not gain much from such labeling…Particularly in this domain we must refrain from jumping to conclusions, and simply look at things as they are.”

Rudolf Steiner

2).

“And now as long as space endures,
As long as there are beings to be found,
May I continue likewise to remain
To drive away the sorrows of the world.”

Shantideva

3).

Hear me, four quarters of the world -- a relative I am!
Give me the strength to walk the soft earth,
a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see
and the strength to understand, that I may be like you.
With your power only can I face the winds.
Great Spirit, Great Spirit, my Grandfather,
all over the earth the faces of living things
are all alike. With tenderness have these come up
out of the ground. Look upon these faces of children
without number and with children in their arms,
that they may face the wind and walk the good road
to the day of quiet. This is my prayer; hear me now!

Black Elk