Greetings Reader - Back in the thrilling days of yesteryear, I was a marketing consultant for a company that made 3-D graphics systems for creating virtual sets, the likes of which are now a regular feature of live TV. The company was based in France and I was hired to help the company make inroads into the U.S. market. The gig only lasted a year, but that was long enough for me to score a free trip to L'Hexagone. They flew me in for a meeting at their corporate offices in Paris to make plans...

Greetings Reader - Yesterday was an exceptionally beautiful day here in Washington, D.C.: mild temperatures, bright sunshine, balmy breezes—it was a perfect day for . . . a bake sale. When we arrived at our No Kings Day “visibility” spot on Connecticut Avenue, we were greeted by a group of kids excitedly promoting their bake sale to raise money for their local public school. And they were cleverly leveraging the fact that it was No Kings Day with their enthusiastic chants to draw attention to...

Greetings Reader, Some say that spirituality transcends politics. In one sense, this is true. At the same time, saying “spirituality transcends politics” is also a political statement. Everything is political, even things that transcend politics! Yoga is the art and science of transcendence, of developing spiritual consciousness. It’s also a moral philosophy that calls us not just to refrain from harming others but to act for the benefit of others as well: “This supreme liberation is attained...