我的两个女儿在离我家不远的美国康州纽敦镇的一所华德福学校上学。就是这个只有2万多人的一个安宁的小镇，昨天发生了惊世的校园枪击惨案。昨天，镇上的所有学校都在禁闭戒严令下，孩子们只能呆在自己的教室里。出于对孩子们的保护，学校没有告诉孩子们发生了什么，我的两个孩子现在也还不知道，象往常一样的快乐。 

今天早上，老大妞妞的班主任发来一封感人的家长信，充分体现着对孩子幼小心灵的保护和华德福的教育精神。我翻译了一下，能读英文的最好看原文。

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亲爱的二年级班的家长，

昨天象是一个梦幻般的场景。课间休息时，孩子们高兴地没有疑问地在室内玩耍，手工课也在教室里，而没有去另一个建筑物，也不知道在镇的另一端正在演出着的震惊性的破坏和混乱-- 而且在很大程度上， 那也同时发生在一些知道这事件的老师的心灵中。我当时感觉到，这是个墙的隐喻，就是我们在这些幼小生命周围所创建的保护之墙，在他们的童年中屏蔽掉尘世所刮的凛冽寒风，使得他们能在平安和喜乐中成长。等他们以后足够坚韧并有能力时，再去处理生活中的世俗中丑陋的方面。

我相信你们会找到合适的方式来谈及昨天的事件，越清淡越好。你也将鼓励你们的大孩子，亲戚朋友们，让他们尽量无忧虑地不受媒体的图像和报导的影响。

星期一，我们将进行走降临螺旋的仪式，那是针对尘世昏暗的一剂美丽并有效的药。我鼓励你们（不带孩子），明天早上9点到11点之间来到的音语舞室，那里螺旋花烛已搭好，你们亲自走螺旋降临的仪式，以怀念昨日的受害亡灵。

二年级的课程，就像其他每个年级的课程一样，本身就是一剂有强效的药，唤醒孩子们对善恶的觉知，增强他们的对彼此和对世界的慈悲，并引他们向内心坚固，希望有一天他们将能有准备地从容地参与到世界中去。他们一方面学习圣哲的故事，另一方面又在神话寓言中汲取营养，以直接喂养他们饥渴的灵魂，并在他们心灵深处工作，正如我每天所看到的那样！

【关于保护孩子的纯真和圣哲故事的教育，请见我新博文中一个有趣的故事（这里）】

带着爱，

梅莉莎 

Dear 2nd Grade parents,

It was something of a surreal scene yesterday.  The children happily and unquestioningly played indoors at recess, and had Handwork in their classroom instead of in the other building, unaware of the devastation and chaos playing itself out on the other side of town - and, to a large extent, in the souls of the teachers who knew something about what was happening.  What I was feeling was really a metaphor for the wall of protection we try to create around these precious young beings, to shield their childhood from the world's harsh and brutal winds, and to allow them to develop in peace and joy until they are strong enough to be able to process and handle life's uglier aspects.

I trust you will find the right way to bring yesterday's events to them in as muted a way as possible, and that you will also encourage older siblings, friends and relatives to leave them as untroubled as possible by media images and reports.

On Monday we will walk the Advent spiral, a beautiful and powerful medicine against the world's darkness.  I encourage you (without children) to come tomorrow morning between 9 and 11 to the Eurythmy room where the spiral is set up, to walk it yourselves in honor of the lives of yesterday's victims.

The 2nd Grade curriculum, like that of every grade, is itself a powerful medicine that awakens the children's awareness of good and evil, heightens their compassion for each other and for the world, and fortifies them inwardly so that one day they will be ready to engage properly with the world.  Their steady diet of Saints stories on the one hand, and Fables on the other, goes straight into their wondering souls and works deep within them.  I see it every day!

With love,

Melissa

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这是我昨晚有感而发写的，还没来的及翻译。

After an abrupt end of their short but completed courses here, little souls are enjoying the other side of the time curtain, reviewing the past loving scenes with their families on earth. Watching their families in sorrow, little souls linger on. Mommy and daddy, heaven is real and beautiful. We are always with you. Our seemingly departure is temporary, and we will rejoice on our reunion.

Sadness awakens. During the time of tragedy, compassion spreads, hearts are strengthened, and people are united and brought closer. After all, love prevails.

Lives will continue with the flow of the single vibratory field that surrounds us all. Armed school security, gun control, media violence regulation and other trials and errors in life will push us to seeking the ultimate solutions, to search for our true Self, with the resonance inside that guides us towards peace and harmony.

Love heals. In union, we find our true identity.