Mary was born and raised in the west of Wales and has worked for eight years in Africa - in Lesotho, in Uganda where she became a Bahaacute;'iacute;, and in Cameroon where she met and married Richard Gray, an American astronomer. She is an author, poet, and storyteller. Mary has focused on writing books, in simple English, on the history and teachings of the Bahaacute;'iacute; Faith. Her first title, href="https://www.amazon.com/Bah%C3%A1%C3%AD-faith-Mary-Perkins/dp/0706239393/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27XBDG3WFUMNMamp;keywords=The+Baha%27i+Faith+Mary+Perkinsamp;qid=1651523300amp;sprefix=the+baha%27i+faith+mary+perkins%2Caps%2C671amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"The Bahaacute;'iacute; Faith, was co-authored with Philip Hainsworth, published by Ward Lock Educational in their series on Living Religion in 1980, and subsequently translated into Danish, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian and Braille. In 2016 she created a volume of her poetry titled href="https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Toward-Home-Mary-Perkins/dp/0957185618/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VDV9LCOFY7D2amp;keywords=Turning+Toward+Home+Mary+Perkinsamp;qid=1651523577amp;sprefix=turning+toward+home+mary+perkins%2Caps%2C79amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"Turning Toward Home. We have a friend of Mary's read two of her poems near the end of the interview. Mary is currently working on a book on storytelling.

Song list:

1. Sorrow Not - ninepointedstarmusic(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJVF...)

2. Strive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Hj9...)

3. Suffer Me by Nabil amp; Karim

4. Sweet Neighbors Come in All Colors - adapted from Dick Grover's song Good Neighbors... by Sweet N all Singers (httpswww.youtube.comwatchv=f1M_XaqJD8U)