To Be Rooted

Dear Members of The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara Community,

Happy Friday. We wish you a restful and joyous long weekend (no school this Monday as it's a Professional Learning Day).

Important Update

* This Monday, March 8th, is a Professional Learning Day for WSSB faculty/staff. There is no school for the students that day.

* The teachers will hold Parent Teacher Conferences the week of March 9th through March 12th. Those days will be early dismissal days for the Grades -- 12:45 p.m. -- as the conferences will take place in the afternoons.

* March 19th is the last day of our Winter term. Early Dismissal at 12:45 p.m.

* March 22nd through March 26th is Spring Break.

With gratitude,

The WSSB Admin Team

PS Courtesy of Robert Macfarlance, the word of the day is "thole": as a noun, the ability to bear hardship. As a verb, to endure patiently, to slog through tough times; "to thole on" (Scots). Compare "sisu" (Finnish) and "ganbaru/gambaru (頑張る)" (Japanese, lit. "stand firm").

PPS The pensée of the day is by Simone Weil:

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define. A human being has roots by virtue of his real, active and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves certain particular treasures of the past and certain particular expectations for the future."