Greetings Reader, There are some days when I wake up and think, “I'd love to change the world but I don't know what to do.” My individual choices aren’t enough to make a difference and collective action doesn’t seem to move the needle. The people and power-structures that prevent big systemic changes from being made are too deeply entrenched to displace. What to do? It can be discouraging. Some days I wake up and think, “I don’t wanna change the world. Let this dumb world save itself; I just...

Hi Reader, Do any of these sound like you? → "I want to use Sanskrit in my classes but I'm worried that I won't pronounce it right." → "I'm afraid that I don't know enough about what the words mean to answer questions that my students might have about them." → "I don't know if it's appropriate for me to use Sanskrit in my classes because I'm not Indian and I don't want to offend anyone." → "I'm concerned that using Sanskrit terminology might make yoga sound like a religion or maybe even put...

Greetings Reader, There was barely enough room in the jumbled-up mess of an office to fit the desk, the one adult behind it, and the three pre-teens who were sitting in front of it. The furnace-level setting on the electric radiator’s thermostat approximated the sensation of sitting inside a combustion chamber. The smoke from the Rabbi’s cigar displaced every molecule of oxygen in the room and conspired with the radiator to remove every last drop of moisture from my eyeballs. But enduring the...