Happy Father's Day to the dads who show up every day, even when nobody notices.
The ones working long hours, fixing things that break, teaching lessons the hard way, and carrying more weight than they'll ever admit.
A lot of what makes a family work happens quietly. It's early mornings, late nights, sacrifice, and a thousand little things that never get recognized.
If you're lucky enough to still have your dad around, give him a call. If you're a dad yourself, I hope you get a chance to slow down and enjoy the people you're doing it all for.
Happy Father's Day.
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Modern people have forgotten that walking is a spiritual act.
Walking is the hidden foundation of thinking.
Most people believe the mind creates the person.
Dr Steiner reverses this.
Before a child can think, they must stand.
Before they can reason, they must walk.
Before concepts arise, movement comes first.
He gives the true sequence:
Standing → Walking → Speaking → Thinking
Not four abilities — one force unfolding in 4 stages.
Thinking is transformed walking.
Every step a child takes is the I incarnating —
learning balance, direction, initiative.
The same force that learns to walk becomes judgment, courage, and independent thought.
This is why Steiner warned against restricting natural movement.
A child who cannot fully inhabit movement may later struggle to fully inhabit thought.
And the significance of walking goes even deeper.
For Steiner, the will lives in the limbs.
In the legs, feet, and metabolic system.
Walking is the archetypal expression of human will.
Every step declares: I can move myself through destiny.
Courage, initiative, perseverance — all grow from the same forces that first learned to walk.
Walking is the will becoming conscious.
Steiner describes the human being standing between two worlds:
Cosmic forces through the head.
Earthly forces through the limbs.
Walking is where they meet.
The Earth answers the human being through the feet.
This is why he emphasized walking outdoors, in nature, in rhythm.
Overthinking is not solved by more thinking.
Anxiety, nervousness, mental agitation — these get trapped in the head.
Walking brings them downward.
The limb system digests what the mind cannot.
Movement restores balance between thinking, feeling, and willing.
This is why Waldorf education builds rhythm, walking and outdoor movement into the earliest years:
Healthy thinking grows out of healthy movement.
Learning to walk is the child's first moral act.
The child rises upright through inner initiative — not instinct, not imitation alone.
It is the spirit taking hold of the body.
Walking is the first expression of freedom.
And this is why Steiner saw conscious walking as a lifelong spiritual exercise:
Walk in silence.
Walk in rhythm.
Walk while observing nature.
The road to wisdom begins exactly where your feet touch the ground.
The signs of an intelligent and awake human mind:
1) curiosity about the world
2) the impulse to create
3) the impulse to share what one creates
People who do none of these things have a tendency to tyrannically impose their dead ways onto everyone.
Icymi, the great Andrew Edwards (@goldengoatguild) joined me to talk his jaw-dropping new novel CROWBAR, + conspiracy, Truth, the 1980s, LSD, and much more. Clip here, link to full ep. in comment.
"The McCarthy-like apocalypticism and brutality can easily seduce the reader into thinking that’s what the novel is about. But the metaphysical and religious narrative is grounded precisely in the apparent uselessness of pain and suffering in this world." https://t.co/7HbGsJ9q96
For most of human history, women did not experience children as some rare interruptions to adult life. Babies were everywhere, in arms, on hips, asleep in slings, playing under tables while bread was kneaded and laundry was folded. A young girl did not grow up in a world separated from motherhood.
So how can women want babies when they rarely see babies?
A baby changes the atmosphere of a room, people smile more, they speak softer, they are gentler, there is more joy.
Perhaps the desire for children has not disappeared nearly as much as we think. Perhaps many women have simply been separated from the very thing that used to awaken that desire in their hearts.