Springtime Amphitheater

Dear Members of The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara Community,

Today the Grades students gathered to perform, the flute playing, singing, tinikling, strings, and reciting of poetry filling the springtime amphitheater. It was very beautiful to see the culmination of the students' work and to experience it live.

We offer videos below of the children's performances. Thank you to the faculty for making these performances possible. And thank you to Alexis Schoppe, Laura Macker, and Amy Hagen for making these videos possible.

YouTube link for the spring performance:
https://youtu.be/ss1j1eXZLPA

YouTube Link for the strings recording:
https://youtu.be/lol6L39M16k

We also want to acknowledge the 7th and 8th Graders as they completed the milestone of sharing their Mentorship Presentations this Thursday evening. After weeks of working with a chosen mentor, the students presented their learning to an audience of peers and parents. Topics included beekeeping; marksmanship; songwriting; herbal medicine; surfboard shaping; natural dyeing; and project management.

With gratitude,

The WSSB Admin Team

PS The penseés of the day:

On Friendship

But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self; the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another; to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

David Whtye

Unsung

There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.

David Abram