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AMI Annual Global Meeting 2023 and San Francisco Infant Community

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In April the first in-person AGM since the Covid epidemic was held in Delft, Netherlands. Here are just a few of the highlights of the focus on “Sowing Seeds” projects around the world seen by 250 people from 50 different countries.

The first day was sunny and beautiful, people seated outside the cafes and restaurants. Above you can see Catalina Ivan(the picture taken by her husband) from Romania, and Joanne Kaya, a Welsh Montessori teacher I met in Moscow years ago, and with whom I am staying this week in a village nearby. Continue reading →

Netherlands for Thanksgiving, 2022

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AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Here I am, November 2022, seated at the desk of Montessori in her office, in the apartment where she lived for many years. It is at the top of several flights of typical Dutch narrow and steep flights of stairs. This building is the headquarters of AMI (The Association Montessori Internationale) in Amsterdam. Continue reading →

Dublin, Amsterdam, and Marseille – Spring 2017

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1 culture in dublin

Speaking in Ireland, attending the Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam, sharing the Value of Concentration, and then Montessori in France

Dublin
Arriving in Dublin I was taken immediately to the tower, now the James Joyce Museum, where the beginning of the book “Ulysses” takes place. That experience has inspired me to give the book just one more chance and I am now on page 20 and enjoying it. Also in Dublin I saw the Book of Kells which has been on my “to do” list for many years, the National Museum, the Chester Beatty Library Collection, and had two shows of my own art. Continue reading →