A New Year, Thoughts by Glenda Taylor
A new year. But what’s new about it? The same old fretful dithering, over health, politics, family issues repeated over generations. Why bother to [...]
Take Heart, an Essay
Take heart! Although the news each day seems more and more alarming, the political divisions and unrest, at home and abroad, seem more and more [...]
Prison
On November 28, 1990, Glenda Taylor, at the request of a prison chaplain, addressed the assembled staff of the federal prison at Bryan, Texas, speaking [...]
Tibetan Monks Create and Disperse Green Tara Sand Mandala, a Video
Tibetan monks, in reverence and silence, create a Green Tara mandala, and then, ceremonially, sweep the sands together and carry them in procession with others to [...]
Yesterday Was Valentines Day
While being cared for in a cardiologist's office, I learned deeper lessons about the care of the heart.
“Ageing,” a poem by Glenda Taylor
I’m slowly dissolving into the Void. While others are spending years sitting upright on hard cushions, striving not to strive to achieve mindlessness, I’m getting [...]
Prayer for the Perpetrators
My dearly beloved friends and family, Like you, I am sure, this week, including as it has the events in Boston, Washington, and now the [...]
“Words,” A poem by Glenda Taylor
They say (whoever they are who say nevertheless with words) that a picture’s worth a thousand words, pictures being more exact replicas of reality, or so [...]
Hexagrams of the I Ching
The following is a useful list categorizing each of the 64 hexagrams of the ancient Chinese study I Ching, or Book of Changes. For further information on [...]
Timeline: History of Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. The word Islam means [...]
