Photo: Emma Weiss
As we prepare to move from DC to Providence, Rhode Island, I’m thinking about some of the places I will miss. Today, when I should have been packing, instead I went down a rabbit hole of looking at my pictures from the Tregaron Conservancy. Over the past few years I’ve taken hundreds of pictures and spent so many hours there. It’s truly one of my favorite places on earth.
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Read MoreA few weeks ago, a longtime student sent me a note.
“Stick to the yoga, Beth,” she wrote, in response to a message I had shared with my email list. “I enjoy your class, but I don’t need to hear your political views.”
I thought long and hard before responding that I didn’t think I could do that.
I didn’t think I could just stick to the yoga, and if that meant she needed to unsubscribe from my list, I would be truly sorry to see her go, but I would understand.
Since then I’ve been thinking about what it means for me, as a yoga teacher and as a business owner, to speak out on social issues that I feel strongly about.
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