On today’s date in 1952 Gladys Davis married fellow A.R.E. member Al Turner. Gladys Davis Turner (1905-1986) served as Edgar Cayce’s stenographer and secretary beginning in 1923 and dedicated her life to protecting the archives of the Cayce work. She built her cottage, “Glad Niche,” in the early 1950s. Mary Ellen Carter in “My Years with Edgar Cayce: The Personal Story of Gladys Davis Turner” writes that the cottage, “situated adjacent to the headquarters property, …was already a lovely setting which Al enhanced by his labors as nurseryman and gardener. He taught the many children who came to visit how to respect and care for the natural environment - reminding Gladys of Edgar Cayce’s own love of nature" (138-139).  These photographs reside in the archives of the Edgar Cayce Foundation and are open for research.

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The ECF archives holds a selection of books from the Cayce family’s personal libraries. This beautiful edition of Wonder Book (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne belonged to Gertrude Evans Cayce, Edgar’s wife. She inscribed her name in 1900, when Edgar worked for the J.P. Morton bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky.

He is also a pessimist

write a diary

literally

just write a diary, it has helped me sooo much and i dare say it has been the most developing thing i’ve done while learning french, nothing else compares

1. you’re exposed to the language daily

2. you quickly see which words are missing from your vocabulary

3. you learn to write about the things you think about a lot

4. learning to actually think in your target language

5. having to look up words and when reading the entry back a couple of days later you can’t even remember which words you didn’t know

6. going back to the earlier entries and seeing all the mistakes and knowing how much better you’ve become

7. when you’ve been writing for a few months and your target language becomes a natural way for expressing yourself

8. when you’ve been writing for a few months and you start seeing the diary writing as a way of self-expression and stressrelief, and the language learning aspect becomes natural and secondary