Lately, I've been spending lots of time pondering all sorts of things but one of the things that's been most on my mind is the notion that I think we need to get back to our Waldorf roots. Over the last year we seem to have drifted away from it and it seems that in that drifting that something has been missing from our days. Sure, we still have our nature table and our daily rhythms and our verses and our lovely open ended toys and sweet cooperative games but something just seems....off. Something seems to be missing. I don't know if it's just the time of year (autumn although a wonderful season always seems to be a time of change for me) or if there is something more to it, but the one thing I keep coming back to is that the major thing that's different from last year to this year is that we have left behind our connection to the Waldorf world. We've never been truly Waldorf. We have allowed media in our days and home (where many pure Waldorf families don't) but we've never been purely radical unschoolers either. I have often said that we are unschoolers with a Waldorf flavor to us, though in the last year it seems that our Waldorf flavor has lessened considerably. Perhapse getting reconnected with the Waldorf homeschooling community will help. Perhapse returning to the way our days flowed before will help. Perhapse it's just one of those things that will figure itself out. Regardless, if any other mamas have wrestled with something like this I would love to hear your stories/wisdom/advice. And if not, no worries, I am sure one of these days I will have clarity on this topic of "who we are".
