Image: SRF Lake Shrine Windmill Chapel – Photo by Ron W. G.
Life Sketch of Linda Sue Grimes
The following original poem captures the tranquility of my favorite meditation place in Los Angeles, California, the Windmill Chapel at Self-Realization Fellowship’s Lake Shrine.
The Windmill Chapel
In the temple of silence
By the lake, we sit
In stillness, meditating
In divine Bliss.
Returning to our daily minds,
We walk out into the sunshine,
And the flowers greet us.
In the Windmill Chapel
On the Lake Shrine waters
We can sense the essence
Of our Guru’s presence.
As we stroll in beauty
Of the Lake Shrine grounds
Our Guru’s love surrounds us.
My poem “The Windmill Chapel” rendered in song
Video by Ron in Tennessee
My path through life led to a spiritual journey, and I dedicate my worldly pursuits to that pilgrimage. Through music, poetry, cooking, and other genres of arts, I seek truth and beauty held within and presented by those endeavors. Thank you for joining me on my journey.
Image: Linda Sue Grimes – November 1, 2025 – Photo by Ron W. G.
The Literary Life
Born Linda Sue Richardson on January 7, 1946, to Bert and Helen Richardson in Richmond, Indiana, I grew up about eight miles south of Richmond in a rustic setting not too far from the Ohio border.
After graduating from Centerville Senior High School in Centerville, Indiana, in 1964, I completed my baccalaureate degree with a major in German at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1967.
I married Ronald Grimes on March 10, 1973. I began studying the teachings and practicing the yoga techniques of Paramahansa Yogananda in 1978.
As a creative writer and an expository essayist, I focus on poetry, short fiction, politics, spirituality, and vegan/vegetarian cooking, which results in my original veggie recipes.
Specialist in Literary Studies
I have engaged in studies as a literary specialist, since 1972 after completing the M.A. degree in German and English at Ball State University.
I have researched, studied, and written about the works of classic poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists.
I have published three essays in the academic journal, The Explicator: “Emerson’s ‘Days’ (Vol. 45, Nr. 1, Fall 1986); “Lawrence’s Women in Love” (Vol. 46, Nr. 2, Winter 1988), “Dickinson’s ‘There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House‘” (Vol. 50, Nr. 4, Summer 1992).
After completing the PhD degree in British, American, and World literature with a cognate in rhetoric/composition at Ball State University in 1987, I taught English composition, honors humanities, and poetry writing in the English department at BSU as a contractual assistant professor from 1987 until 1999.
I also continue to express my love for music by writing my own original songs, which I record, accompanying myself on guitar or keyboard. I shares my musical compositions at SOUNDCLOUD.
Additional Publishing History
I have published my original poems in a handful of literary journals, including Sonoma Mandala, Rattle, and The Bellingham Review.
I have published four books of poems: Singing in Soul Silence, Command Performance, and Turtle Woman & Other Poems, and At the End of the Road, and a book of fables titled Jiggery-Jee’s Eden Valley Stories.
I published my first cookbook in the spring of 2013, titled The Rustic Veggie-Table: 100 Vegan Recipes. I am working on a second cookbook and her fifth book of poems.
After studying the poems in Paramahansa Yogananda’s Songs of the Soul, I wrote commentaries on the poems and published the collection as Commentaries on Paramahansa Yogananda’s Songs of the Soul.
For a detailed list of the holdings of this site, please see the opening introduction to Linda’s Literary Home.
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