Mary Oliver with Coleman Barks
Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets and her approach to spirituality finds echoes, I hope, in my own life and work. To honor Mary Oliver's passing, give [...]
The Bottom Line, a poem by Glenda Taylor
The Bottom Line, by Glenda Taylor You see, it’s like this, sort of: Because I experience Something-That-Is, Awestruck, I respond and in so doing, I learn, and relearn, deliciously, gratefully, [...]
Icy Thoughts
The temperature outside dropped to 18 degrees last night. The whistling, sometimes moaning wind brought down dead tree limbs and even dead trees. In the morning sun, evergreens glisten [...]
There’s a Snake, Thoughts by Glenda Taylor
There’s a snake in the Garden of Eden. A fat copperhead. I saw him this morning. And I must not amount to much, because he wasn’t bothered enough even [...]
Authentic Voice, a poem by Glenda Taylor
Authentic Voice by Glenda Taylor I am a person acquainted with sorrow. Remember that, as I manifest joy. Undivided, the dark and the light, The day and the night, [...]
A Different Advent
Take a walk with Glenda Taylor at Earthsprings Retreat Center to experience the first hints of the advent of spring. https://youtu.be/AK9t-WYXKx4 To lean more about Earthsprings Retreat [...]
“Prayer,” a poem by Glenda Taylor
Prayer, a Poem by Glenda Taylor Saying the word God is placing a flaming arrow on your tongue. As sacrament, it may be meant to ignite, in its [...]
“The Trees Acquire New Dresses,” a poem by Glenda Taylor
The Trees Acquire New Dresses, a poem by Glenda Taylor Once again, as spring begins, the trees acquire new dresses. Floral prints. First the one I call the bliss-bestowing tree, a [...]
“Cracks,” a poem by Glenda Taylor
“Cracks,” a poem by Glenda Taylor I. Somehow, perhaps temporarily, I have fallen into one or another of the cracks that can open in Wholeness itself, fissures that split Being [...]
“Lightness,” a poem by Glenda Taylor
Lightness, a poem by Glenda Taylor With what feathery lightness do you step, And in such silence, yet surprise me— Scorpion walking on my bare foot! [...]