Riddle of America, The - Waldorf Research Institute

Joseph Glosemeyer had a life-changing experience in California forty yearsago, beginning a search throughout much of the United States, pursuingspiritual dimensions in life. He settled with his wife on a small acreage inChoctaw, central Oklahoma, thirty-two years ago, where he practices biodyanamicgardening. Living in close proximity to the Native American senseof place, both within and without, as well as the wisdom of Rudolf Steiner,raised the question of the relationship between the individual and the landupon which he or she lives. The Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995,occasioned an earnest attempt to answer that question, which has resultedin the essay in this collection.Hikaru Hirata earned an A.A. degree from Marymount College, and he receivedhis Waldorf Teacher Training at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks,California. From 1995–1999 he taught studio art, art, and music history atShining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado. He also teaches arthistory at the Boulder Anthroposophical Institute. He has exhibited widelyin Japan, Germany, New York, California, and most recently in London,England, and Denver, Colorado.Gertrude Reif Hughes is professor of English and Women’s Studies at WesleyanUniversity in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Mount HolyokeCollege, M.A.T. from Wesleyan University, and Ph.D. from Yale University.She is the author of a book on Ralph Waldo Emerson, and she has alsowritten essays on poetry by numerous American women, including EmilyDickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Mary Oliver,Rita Dove, and Joy Harjo. An alumna of Rudolf Steiner School in New YorkCity, she has served as president of Anthroposophic Press and of the RudolfSteiner Summer Institute in Maine.Michael Miller was born in Dayton, Ohio, and moved to Denver, Colorado,in 1983 where he first began to publish. He has published poetry, short fictionand essays in a number of small magazines and journals. “The Thief WhoKindly Spoke” is chapter three of his unpublished book, Hard Rain/Slow Train:Passages about Dylan. Excerpts from other chapters were combined into anarticle published in the Belgian journal, Initiations (Number 8, Spring 1992)under the title “La Voix Du Barde Royale” (“The Voice of the Kingly Bard”).351