wholeness inventing embracing community

books:

The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings
Mary Caroline Richards

Wesleyan, 1973

A stunning example of poetic questioning.

The theater and its double

8 reviews
Antonin Artaud

Grove Press, 1958

"The only cure for madness is the innocence of facts" (150).
I'll admit that this is the first time I've read Artaud. And I'll admit that when I began reading the first section, The Theater and the Plague, I thought on numerous occasions, "Where is this guy going with this?" Upon concluding this section, and after picking myself up off the floor, I returned to the beginning for a another read through, and again, afterward, found myself floored. Artaud ...

Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

5 reviews
Mary Caroline Richards

Wesleyan, 1989

A classic book on holistic poetics & pedagogy.
Innumerable poets, potters, artists & teachers have been touched by Mary Caroline Richards. Ever attentive to the whole person, Richards shows that a truly liberating creativity arises out of compassion, an attentive stillness of soul, self-acceptance & a delight in creative "accidents." For Richards, the words "teacher" and "student" are interchangeable. She gently reminds us that she is ...

Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America

1 review
Mary Caroline Richards

Wesleyan, 1980

An inspiring and complete view of this exciting movement.
My copy of this book is underlined, notated and thumbed. Mary Richards writes in the voice of a poet, often dreamily, of the gentle art of education Rudolf Steiner style. I've put Steiner theories to work successfully--but not in a dogmatic way--in a home-school setting, with small mixed-age groups of home schoolers. If we could summarize the book in a few words, we might say this: children ...

Opening Our Moral Eye: Essays, Talks & Poems Embracing Creativity & Community

2 reviews
Mary Caroline Richards, Deborah J. Haynes

Lindisfarne Books, 1996

The work and play of life.
This spiritual and, in many ways, autobiographical work is an eye-opening, heart-awakening, mind-expanding, and imagination-bending achievement.

No Ordinary Man
Mary Caroline Richards

Hawaii Education Association, 1998

Mary Richards, in this biography, provides a warm, revealing picture of a highly capable, dedicated man who got Hawaii statehood off to an admirable start. There is a strongly personal flavor to her account, a detailed mosaic of Quinn?s recorded remembrances, commentaries by a host of political participants and outside observers, editorials and news stories. Mrs. Quinn?Nancy to so many?proves herself a loving and insightful wife and mother, a ...