The Yogahag Journal

The Yogahag Journal

Jet Hag

Don't go west, young woman

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Melanie McLeod
May 05, 2026
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point that nose east

During my 20s and 30s I would travel in a primarily westerly direction from my home in Nebraska. Not because of anything Horace Greeley quoted in the nineteenth century, but because my aunt lives in Washington State and my uncle lives in California. I had friends in Portland and in-laws in Spokane. Back then, the closest Krishna Das …

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