Tears of Joy...

Good to hear!!! The world needs more people like this, especially in these "dark times".

The expansion of heart and mind is worth FAR more than faceless, non-commodity backed, promissory greenbacks could ever hope for...my former incarnation was as an industrial chemist, and bioengineer. Nowadays I see greater accomplishment educating children (parents listen to their kids more than vice versa).

AN ASIDE: Steiner maintained that all schools should have gardens. I've noticed thesedays that not all Waldorf schools do. Its much easier to teach Calculus and the biological sciences to an eight year-old with a bean sprout than any amount of chalkboard time.