I live inside a site-specific art installation. It’s amazing! It brings a fantastic array of shapes, sounds, colors, textures, drama, and movement together to create a fully immersive experience. It’s breath-takingly beautiful, heart-breakingly tragic, perspicuously […]
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Yoga philosophy begins with the proposition that we are not the material bodies we inhabit; we’re eternal spiritual beings inhabiting temporary material bodies. In his Yoga-sūtra, Patanjali describes the true nature of the self as
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I’m cat-sitting for friends who are galivanting around France for a couple of weeks. Talk about an invitation you can’t refuse: taking care of Mendel the cat is an opportunity for me to have something
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I was reflecting back on my life as a teenager the other day; on how it seems as if it were a previous life rather than an early chapter of this one; on how reckless
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It’s said that we live in an unfortunate season of time; a time when simple living and elevated thinking give way to complicated entanglements and diminished reasoning, when purity gives way to pollution, mercy gives
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What I remember most was how quickly I was able to accept what was happening. An eastward swing down Porter Street, a long residential mediary between two busy thoroughfares, offers an easy and enjoyable tree-lined descent to cyclists with
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After a couple of weeks of watching the competing narratives coming out of the impeachment inquiry, I felt inspired to sit with the question: how do we know what’s true? Conventional wisdom tells us that
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I don’t know why I’m so surprised when I meet young people who have no interest in voting. After all, I didn’t vote the first few times I could have. Watching the Vietnam War and
During a recent visit with my in-laws down in Southern Virginia, we drove out to Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson’s retreat home. Built as a perfect, single-story octagon with four elongated octagons set around an almost-perfect cube,
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My first opportunity to learn a second language came when I was in Junior High School, what we now call Middle School. Back then, Latin, Spanish, French, and German were the standard choices and perhaps
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