Posts in Festivals
Lantern Walk Peg Dolls: A Tutorial

As we all experience our beloved school festivals in different ways this year, recreating some of these rituals and celebrations in peg doll form has been a way to remember the joys of years past, and consider the present in a lighthearted way.

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The Winter Spiral: Offering an Inner Light as a Realization of Individuality

The darkness is actually an invitation for each individual to find and shine their personal light. One by one, as the small lights are offered from each person gathered as a community at the Winter Spiral, we create a starry heaven on earth.

The answers to these questions shift as the children get older, and by middle school, exploring possible answers may best be done by the students themselves.

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Diwali: Festival of Lights

So many cultures celebrate holidays and festivals with similar gestures at the same time of year. Why is this?

It is because, no matter our culture, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, etc., we are all living in relation to the seasons and the cycle of the year. Like Michaelmas, Martinmas, and the Lantern Walk, Diwali calls on us to celebrate and cultivate our inner light to bring with us through the darkness of winter.

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