What I've Learned About Where We Are

It was a year ago that I wrote a blog post, entitled "Keeping the Dream Alive," and launched a fundraising campaign to see if it might still be possible to open a small community yoga center in my neighborhood. Much to my amazement and joy, a few hundred people decided to pitch in and give me just enough money to go for it right when all the odds seemed stacked against the viability of a brick and…