Elisha Gullixson’s memorial service will be held, Saturday April 18th at 1 p.m. at Manifested Glory Ministries 1128 4th Ave. N, Kent, WA 98032.
To help the family plan for numbers – If you haven’t done so already – please click on this link and indicate how many from your family will come. Deadline is this Friday.
This is a link to Rachman’s photos of Elisha over the years. https://photos.app.goo.gl/hW1HKZ4n91ofYF3F9
Thanks, Oswald
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Whether you fasted for the month of Ramadan, or not, please join us this Sunday for a potluck celebration of the end of the month of Ramadan. Please bring something to share.
The committee will also update you on activities at our center since our last meeting In January. The agenda will include the following:
14 For that reason, always do your latihan, so that soon you may encounter the various powers that have gathered in your feelings and be able to tell one from another.
17 So, it is best to do your training patiently, even though you make progress only little by little. The main thing for you is to experience its reality, so that you may develop in the best way.
From SUSILA BUDHI DHARMA
A poem received and written down in High Javanese
and Kawi, and later rendered into Indonesian by
MUHAMMAD-SUBUH SUMOHADIWIDJOJO
Copyright © 2007 the World Subud Association. All rights reserved.
Hi All,
Next meeting March 22nd – With an Idul Fitri potluck
After talking over possible dates for our next general meeting date with the committee, we agreed that 3/22 would be the best date for it. Many members will have been fasting and we can use the date to mark the end with an Idul Fitri potluck.
Though we’ll have some updates on progress with business activities, the agenda will be light on these areas. We hope that members will come and share some of their Subud experiences since the last time we were together.
SD-USA Granting meeting last weekend
Our center just hosted the SD-USA annual granting session. It was my last granting session as I complete my work on the board. More about SD-USA and it’s projects later.
For those of you who wanted to see the video SDI put together for the general public, titled “Moved From Within, here’s a link.
I had hoped to have more progress in this report, but have been ill with the flue and am just now recovering. Apologies for the slow start.
Love, Oswald
For those of you wishing to have information the start and end dates of Ramadan, please click this link for a PDF version of the calendar.
Oswald Norton
Dear Members of Subud Greater Seattle,
As I write this, it’s been only 9 days since Jim and I were tested and then elected as your new vice chair and chair. In that time, we have been able to form a complete committee. Sarah Stralberg has agreed to continue as our treasurer. Lisa Allen has agreed to formally accept the role of secretary.
Thank you, Sarah and Lisa.
When I thought about putting my name forward for this position, I thought back to a question that Jim O’Halloran and I asked each other 4 years ago: Are there enough members who are able and willing to do the work required in order for the members to enjoy a facility that they own? Or, have we come to the end of the line for owning and operating a facility that we own?
In the next two years I hope, with your help, to discover the answer to that question. I will certainly try.
Housing Committee
In the next 3 weeks I hope to complete the creation of and the formal charter for a committee to explore what we, as a group, need in order to maintain a latihan facility in the Seattle area for the time past when my term is over as chair. Something that I hope will allow us to maintain a facility for those wishing to experience the grace that we have all received, long after my work, and the work of others is over.
I will be putting together a survey, along with the local helpers, to gather from our members their hopes and desires for our future. This should be out no later than the beginning of March.
Monthly Meetings
I would like to continue our monthly potlucks and get togethers. Not only to share with you the work of the Housing Committee, but to also share with each other how the latihan has changed, or helped our lives since the last time we met. This idea came out of a planning session we had for our last kejiwaan event.
Each monthly meeting will be a potluck where I hope members will bring their most delicious foods to share with all of us so that we can enjoy the bounty of the foods we create in our own homes.
Kejiwaan Events
It is my hope that the helpers and committee will meet at least once a month to do latihan together and to test about the needs of our group. I am working on getting this regular rhythm setup. I hope that out of this work the Subud Greater Seattle dewan will come to understand how we can put at least bi-annual kejiwaan events for the members.
We need both men and women members who are not currently helpers to be willing to step into these roles if this is to be accomplished. The last kejiwaan event was mostly led by the regional helpers.
Morning the passing of long time members
With the death of Hadidjah Gregory [memorial service and potluck February 14 from 4 to 7] and the illness and possible passing of some of our members we have some memorials coming up. We need to remember and acknowledge the support and care of these members in our community. I hope you will attend these.
I will update you in the future as I have more to tell.
With Love For Our Subud Community
I am your chair, Oswald Norton
On Sunday, January 25th after latihan we had our group meeting which included the selection process for chair and vice chair of Subud Greater Seattle for the coming term. Eleven members attended this meeting.
Acknowledging our past Chair Adira Padilla
Before beginning the meeting, we thanked Adira Padilla for her time as our chair. Her monthly efforts helped us create community through sharing food and discussing the needs of our center. Without her efforts we would not be the group we are today.
Thank you Adira!!!
Meeting Details
After we had the opportunity to partake of the potluck we had a moment of quiet before starting the meeting.
Last Meeting’s Minutes
A review of printed copies of the last meeting’s minutes caused a correction to be raised that last meetings minutes should include the fact that we agreed that any decision to sell our property would be brought to the group for a vote. With that correction the minutes were approved.
Treasurer’s Report
Sarah Stralberg handed out copies of the treasurer’s report and took us through a review of where we stood at the end of 2025. In summary, we have money in the bank to cover our current expenses. Due to our adding air conditioning to the rental unit and the bed-bug experience, expenses last year outstripped our income from rentals.
Testing for Chair
Nominations were opened and Oswald Norton, Jim O’Halloran and Marston Gregory were all nominated and agreed to be tested.
The following questions were tested:
We tested all of the questions with each of the candidates before the group was satisfied with the testing. After the testing was completed, the candidates left the room and voting took place. The members chose Oswald Norton as chair.
Testing for Vice Chair
The nominations for vice chair were Jim O’Halloran and Marston Gregory. It was agreed by the candidates that only the first question would be tested. After the testing was completed, the candidates left the room and voting took place. The members chose Jim O’Halloran.
Your New Committee
Oswald Norton, chair and Jim O’Halloran, vice chair
by Marston Gregory
Hadidjah (Sarellen) Browdie Gregory (1943 – 2025)
It is with both sadness and joy for her, to report that after a fall, then hip surgery, Hadidjah whispered “Allah in each breath” as she left this World. She is on her way home to now be fully one with her creator. I was honored to be at her bedside.
She is survived by her brother Richard Browdie who lives in Washington D.C. Her other brother David Browdie, MD passed away last year.
Her last days were difficult with onset of memory loss and many other challenging health issues. Memory loss was very difficult for her since memory was one of her gifts.
Hers was a life of service in three key elements, Subud, AA, and her marriage, in her extraordinary life of service to others. She was a woman of many talents, from art which was her true work, plus many healthcare roles including caring for the elderly with Catholic Community Services and food service. She trained to be a Medical Technician and worked on the staff of doctors and in a hospital.
She said often that she “Was Subud” and she demonstrated that also by being a fully engaged helper. She filled roles as a local helper in San Diego, Marin, Los Angeles, Austin and finally Seattle until she became an Honorary Retired Helper. She also was a Subud USA National Helper and Subud PNW Regional Helper. A phrase she repeated often is a Bapak quote “You are Subud” and she lived that each day.
Another very important role was her work in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) which she discovered after her opening in Subud, she was addicted to Alcohol which was self-medication for recovering from the loss of both parents by the time she was fourteen. She was able to turn that tragic past into a life of healing and helping others. After 60 years of sobriety, she was an inspiration to many women who she sponsored.
She had a dream that she was at the gates of heaven and was asked, “What did you do on earth?” She replied, “I fed people”. She then immediately got a job at Microsoft in their catering department and often served the young Bill Gates. I believe that was a symbol of her life of service. She prayed over every drink for Bill. She prayed that his life was to be of service to humanity and indeed that has manifested.
As her partner, friend and spouse it has been 51 years of love with this dear soul who fought and won so many challenges.
A memorial is being planned at the Seattle Subud Center at around 100 days from her passing. She passed on November 2, 2025. The ceremony will be announced at a later date.
May God in his love and mercy make her passage easy.
Her devoted Husband, Marston Gregory
Link to photos of Hadidjah from Rachman Cantrell
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WjdpYePxXtU3khg49
Spring Street Center
1101 15th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
Latihan at 3
Help Setup for Selametan at 4
Selametan Dinner 5-8 PM
For those of you who were unable to attend our kejiwaan event April 26th and 27th please put our annual regional retreat at the beautiful Seabeck conference center September 11-14 on your calendars. Preregistration is coming sool.
Here’s a link to that information.
We provided a resource sheet to all who attended our April 26 & 27 event, which we’re providing to all of our members now. It includes:
Click here for the Subud Member Resource Sheet 2025
Those attending also received two talks by Bapak from 1977. To access all of Bapak’s Ibu Rahayu’s talks, please see the information on the resource sheet on how to access the library. Please note the Subud Library and the talks therein are only for Subud members.