By Glenda | July 17, 2017

Gratitude to Refugees from Africa

Amazing African teenagers sang and danced in an event organized to raise money for refugees that Chris and I attended yesterday in Albuquerque. They sang in Swahili and danced with such exuberance that one would never know the hardships they had endured coming to this country, so strange to them, just about 15 months ago […]

By Glenda | July 8, 2017

After Absence

You have received more love than mail lately from me.  For good reason, I assure you. I was told by the eye doctor that the “narrow angles” of something in my eyes would threaten blindness if I did not have surgery immediately.  So I did!  The doctor wanted me to rest and rest my eyes, […]

By Glenda | March 24, 2016

About Today

Today I had to reach deeply into the sources of my spiritual life, seeking the means to be with, in a sacred way, as I like to say, what I am experiencing of the outer world. It was not easy, for at first I could only see a world full of both bomb blasts and […]

By Glenda | September 25, 2015

Yes!

Had I power to command, I’d command everyone to take the time to watch this entire interfaith ceremony at Ground Zero, with participation by all the world’s religions. Of especial note was the equal participation of women,the embrace of the rabbi and the Muslim cleric, the emotion of the young Muslim woman participating at this […]

By Glenda | August 14, 2015

Diversity and Oneness

I am spending a brief time of rest, renewal, and reflection in the area of the United States called Four Corners. Here the “corners” of four states touch: Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Here, too, different topographical regions touch: towering mountains dip rapidly down to high desert, the temperature dropping ten degrees in a […]

By Glenda | May 12, 2015

The Ultimate, A Quotation

“…It is not that certain peoples such as the old Japanese believed that individual ‘spirits’ or ‘souls’ inhabited stones and trees, but that the One and Only Being, manifesting both simultaneously and successively through an indefinite multiplicity of states, spiritual, psychic, and physical, aroused their awe and received their reverence in and through one of […]

By Glenda | February 25, 2015

Through Love Alone

  Recently I discovered that my 9th great grandmother was tortured as a witch in Europe during the Inquisition. This led me to reflect yet again on how violence is engendered by religious extremism of every type in every age. The news today is full of stories of ISIS and “radical Islam,” and, on other […]

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