Greetings Reader, Last summer, I posted an Instagram reel about how the principle spiritual equality provides a rational basis for social justice. How so? Materially, none of us are equal. We all have a little more of this or a little less of that and when we add it all up, no one is materially equal to anyone else. Spiritually, however, the yoga wisdom tradition tells us that we are all equal; that we’re all made of the same spiritual stuff and that we are all equally infinitesimal parts of...

Greetings Reader, My latest rationalization for not pulling my phone away from my nose? Watching reels of musicians explaining the brilliance of the Beatles. It’s fun to learn what makes their songs so great. And it’s nice to see that these reels are coming from relatively young musicians, not my antediluvian contemporaries with memories of Beatlemania. One of the many ways that the Beatles upended the rules of pop songwriting was by opening songs with the chorus instead of a verse. The most...

Greetings Reader, Did I ever tell you that I used to be a soda pop salesman? It’s true. Back in 1981, I got a job as a sales rep for a very small company with a tiny office in lower Manhattan. Their flagship product was the first all-natural soda pop to hit the health food market. My job was to sell soda pop to independent grocery stores around the city and health food stores around the country. There were only five people working out of that office. Of those five, I was the only man. I was...