by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Essay
For years I had wondered how young people in general, especially those born after 1985, would take over adult functions when they grew into adults. In my mind, I couldn’t get the children to fit the adult responsibilities. My father told a story of a man working in a...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Story
Laurens Van der Post was a prisoner of the Japanese in WWII. One day he had a remarkable experience: All the Dutch and English senior officers were suddenly summoned to parade one afternoon in the prison quadrangle. The summons, though extremely quick and...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 18, 2022 | Story
This is a compact, but essential history of my parents: My mother was born in Holland in 1904 My father was born in Germany in 1906 Both were born into Jewish families, but that’s another story. My father’s sister Hilda, worked for my mother’s...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
At Two Rivers Farm, formulating Work ideas was standard practice. In the last years of her life, Mrs. Staveley left the giving of Sunday “themes” to us, her students. So there was widespread experience of formulation in our community. We were encouraged...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
It is the year 2300 and the world is at peace. There are no extremes; extremes are gotten rid of. If a child is too anything: violent, crazy, visionary, smart, stupid, incurious—-it is eliminated. And if an adolescent or adult goes to extremes, the police are...
