Originally published on Substack We do not often characterize politics as spiritual activity. Many if not most people associate it with problematic power struggles and necessary evils — the supposed opposite of spirituality. And yet, if we define spiritual activity as the effect of “immaterial” ideas and morals on the […]
My Friends are Dying of Heart Attacks
A 50th birthday celebration and reunion is marred by multiple deaths I’m headed out to Maui to celebrate my brother’s 50th birthday. One of our oldest friends—a 53-year-old named Dan who was my roommate in graduate school—was scheduled to be on my flight, but he isn’t because he died of […]