Construction and remodeling at Estrella de Sauce.

Thanks to all who have recently sent us donations for our 2017 fundraiser, also to Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners in Germany who have forwarded some generous funding from their WOW-day program for some much needed improvements and upgrades to our Estrella de Sauce facility.

We are currently raising the level of the bathroom floor to see if this will help avoid the flooding that plagues us during heavy tropical rainstorms and we are adding one more classroom area for woodworking and other crafts as well as a new metal back door set in a brick wall that will replace the previous wood fence.

In order to raise the bathroom floor level we had to put in all these rocks and add pipe extensions to the floor drains.

After that Maestro Simon (the best building contractor in Sauce and our personal friend) levelled the whole floor with red-died concrete and re-installed the toilet and wash basin.

Thank you Marnie Muller of Asheville NC, USA

Marnie has kindly sent us a large quantity of her book "Borning In and Borning Out" which is an imaginative and artistic approach to the deep questions of life and death, where do we come from and where where are we going, for all ages.  Fortunately she has come out with a Spanish edition called "Naciendo Afuera y Naciendo Adentro".

Marnie's project "The Borning Project" is sponsered by The Spiritual Growth Foundation in North Carolina which is willing to receive tax-deductible contributions so these books can be widely distributed.  THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE MADE A CONTRIBUTION TO THIS EFFORT!

As well as having copies available for the children and youth who attend our Estrella de Sauce Waldorf educational outreach program Lourdes recently gave away copies to all of the grandmothers who attend our Friday afternoon get-togethers.

Green lyre for the Blue Jungle Waldorf school in Tarapoto, Peru

I keep experimenting with different designs for the 7-string pentatonic lyres I make in my workshop in Sauce, Peru.  I decided to tint this one using blue/green Stockmar water color paint followed by a beeswax coating.  The wood is a dense and heavy local hardwood called ana.  It will be used to create background music for storytelling in the kindergarten class at the new Selva Azul Waldorf school in Tarapoto.