Episode 61: “A Life You Love” with William Glaser - Music by Todd Lowry

In the latest episode of The Celebrate Happiness Roadshow podcast, we are speaking with Santa Fean William "Bill" Glaser. Bill was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia on the Ohio River. He is from a large and still very close family, He has seven siblings. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in Philosophy  in 1972 and after that he headed west. He was going to be a carpenter and he ended up in Santa Fe joining a small group of followers of a mystical philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff. Soon after arriving in Santa Fe, Bill met Adele, his future wife. Together they studied Gurdjieff's teachings for over ten years. Bill did become a carpenter and he had a small construction business for over thirty years in Santa Fe and he married Adele in 1978. They had two children, Emily and Ross. Their daughter, Emily while still in college began traveling the world; Europe, Africa, China, Nepal, India Viet Nam, to name a few places, She was so adventurous. Ross left home after high school and moved to Portland, Oregon. In 2006 Bill closed his construction business and, having gotten a teachers license at Santa Fe community College, took a job teaching mathematics at Santa Fe High where he stayed for six years. Emily currently lives in Santa Fe and she is an Ayurvedic practitioner. Their son Ross, in 2013, drowned in the ocean while he was spending time in Hawaii. Bill and Adele have always held spirituality at the center of their life together. They have been members of Unity Santa Fe for twenty-four years and have studied A Course in Miracles and have regularly participated in Dances of Universal Peace for many many years. Join us for this positively uplifting conversation in which Bill discusses living a life of meaning, joy, and connection, the ripple effect of kindness, the importance of talking to strangers, and so much more.