Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week. This month, we're going to explore questions around gender identity and spiritual identity. Gender identity is a person’s deeply felt, internal sense of being male, female, a combination of both, or neither. It is entirely distinct from sexual orientation (who you are attracted to) and one's medical classification of sex given at birth. Spiritual identity is a person’s sense of who they are in relation...

Hi Reader, Yoga’s effects extend far beyond muscles, joints, flexibility, and strength. A single yoga practice can leave us energized or peaceful, focused or expansive, grounded or inspired. The same posture can feel completely different from one day to the next. Why? According to the yoga wisdom tradition, what we experience in practice is shaped not only by the physical body, but also by subtle layers of energy, awareness, emotion, and consciousness that exist beneath the surface. In Yoga’s...

Greetings Reader, I heard they finished the Bridge to Nowhere. And then demolished it. It’s too bad. I kinda liked it. The Bridge to Nowhere was an architectonic faux pax on the Long Island campus of an otherwise respectable institution of higher learning. The idea was to build a raised pedestrian walkway that would connect the Student Union to the Library. Construction began. Then the funding ran out. So construction stopped. As did the bridge, the last portion of it surrealistically hanging...