Terry Tempest Williams
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Which is sort of what you're doing in your examination of life through this framework of Glorians.
Can I guess we just start by having you define what that means?
What is a Glorian?
You know, I think it's not so much how to define a Glorian, what a Glorian is, as much as it is to pay attention to what is calling us or what is calling us to attention.
And to me, a Glorian is when energies are fused or you are met by another and you are fully present with each other.
And there are so many different kinds of Glorians that you include in your book.
A very special tree at Harvard, the Divinity Tree.
A dear friend of yours, a Ukrainian writer who was poet, who was a dear friend of yours who was trying to document war crimes in Ukraine.
She was killed in a strike.
Another glory in your cat, Jade.
I mean, they're such disparate – on the face of it, they're such disparate beings, right?
And yet there's a through line that connects them that seems to me, you tell me if I'm wrong, it's just about being awake to life, just being aware of the natural world, being aware of sacrifices that people are making.
There's an awareness that undergirds your epic documentation of the Glorians.
And I appreciate you seeing it that way.
In my mind, it's really an answer to Simone Weil when she says, attention is a prayer.
I think if we are present, we will know what to do.
And at a time when there is so much uncertainty in the world,
And I don't know about you, but there are days I think, can I even get up?
And I realize my own privilege.
But I think we're all struggling on some level.
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