Salome Gomez-Upegui in Harvard Magazine:
On Friday, March 20, 2020, writer and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams had a catalytic dream. After climbing a spiral staircase, she met a female professor who reminded her she had once made a vow “to create the epic documentation of the Glorians.” Williams had no idea what a Glorian was, but she was convinced of the solemnity of her vision.
That’s one of the questions Williams explores in her new book, The Glorians:
Visitations from the Holy Ordinary. Oscillating between her life in the red rock desert of southeastern Utah and her time at Harvard, Williams invites readers to witness and delight in the beauty of the world around us. She says that, though she never found a true definition of a Glorian, she had an epiphany outside her home one day, watching an ant carry the magenta blossom of a coyote willow plant.
“I thought, that is a Glorian,” she says. “An ant ferrying a blossom across the desert is a Glorian.”
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