Ancestry: Contemporary: Wild Iris and Other Blooming Memories
Here are pictures of some of the flowers I mentioned in today's podcast "Seventy Four Years Ago." Louisiana Iris, photo by Glenda Taylor, Earthsprings [...]
Calm Amidst the Turbulence
As I have navigated the turbulent currents of this week’s corono-virus events, I was reminded of something I wrote in my journal [...]
Perennials, Archetypes, and Eternal Life, by Glenda Taylor, May 2009
A Reflection by Glenda Taylor, May 2009 Today the daylily that Rebecca Estes’ father hybridized in memory of Shelia and Rich’s son, Kenneth Collins, is [...]
Thomas Jefferson Writes About Jesus
Jesus Christ, detail from Deesis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, IstanbulPhoto by Edal Anton Lefterov, via Wikipedia, CC 3.0 “I have promised to write someday [...]
Quotation by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder at Columbia University in 2007, via wikimedia, CC2.0 “A great poet does not express his or her self, he expresses all [...]
Kabir, Mystic and Poet
Kabir, 1825 Painting of Kabir Weaving, Public Domain Kabir was a mystic and poet born in India around 1398. As an infant, he [...]
The Jewish Tradition, by Dawn Warren
The Hebrew language, culturally considered the Jewish language, has flourished since before the 10th century B.C.E. In Hebrew, the word Torah means “teaching” or “law” and refers [...]
Quotation: On Wholeness and Being, Stephen Levine GalleryQuotation: On Wholeness and Being, Stephen Levine
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Quotation: On Wholeness and Being, Stephen Levine
"…This vastness at the center beckons us yet deeper into wisdom, and compassion is the Unnamable to which so many mystics throughout the ages have [...]
Poem: First Flowers
First Flowers The first flowers I remember (though there were earlier others, to be sure, as pictures exist of me, in my Sunday best, [...]
Quotation: Is Change Coming?
"...In short, neither animal nor further human evolution is automatically progressive. Progress occurs when there is change toward a better condition, however that improvement is [...]
