As the global wellness movement searches for deeper meaning, Guardians of the Light - Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest invites a more reverent path forward: Indigenous-led education, rainforest protection, ceremonial medicine approached with discipline, and the transformation of personal awakening into service to all life. THE PROPHECY AND THE THRESHOLD “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us.” - Rainer Maria Rilke An ancient prophecy carried in the Indigen

The dust from the truck was visible before the truck itself, but before too long, it rambled up and out jumped Tom Gamble. I’d heard he was a farmer, first and foremost, something he later reiterated to me, and he appeared true to the profession. Proper hat to block the sun. Work boots bearing evidence of labor in the vineyards. I’d like to think he was wearing overalls on that first encounter, but I can’t say that for certain. On a later visit, when we met at the elegantly a

For the ultrawealthy, boats or jets are yesterday’s toys. We dig into the last bastion of status for a well-moneyed minority. On a recent Saturday in Los Angeles, a flag football game unfolds at Exposition Park’s BMO Stadium that looks more like a glossy awards show than a light-touch sporting exhibition. Tom Brady has temporarily unretired (again) and is back on the field. Travis Scott is DJ’ing in the stands for a crowd that includes Kendall Jenner, Hailey and Justin Bieber

In April 2024 Jackie Barba, a mother of two girls, heard about Alpha School, a new, artificial intelligence–supported educational institution that was slated to open in her home city of Miami for the 2024–2025 academic year. At $50,000 per year, the school’s cost rivaled that of high-end private institutions found mainly in New England. But unlike its legacy rivals, Alpha (which was founded in Austin, Texas) promised a more modern and real world–applicable learning platform,

Resale alerts. Proxy services. Secret WhatsApps. This is what it takes to buy the best—and most coveted—clothes. The White Stripes’ anthem “Seven Nation Army” never fails to have a Proustian effect on Bianca Jebbia. Every time she hears it, Jebbia flashes back to the first time she walked into the Marni boutique on Mercer Street in New York. More than two decades later, she recalls entering a futuristic gallery of fashion, with clothes suspended from chrome rails as seriously

One of the absolute best ways to learn about wine is to “dive in” and wine festivals, especially when they have a focus on educational seminars, are a terrific way to dive in. But even if you’re just a wine lover who likes to taste and sample and enjoy, then wine festivals equally rise to the occasion. There are thousands of wine-focused festivals - both big and small - each year and in every corner of the world. This month, we take look at some incredible summer wine festiva

At a local high school basketball game, the game came down to the wire. Player A, the star of the team, is standing on the perimeter, surveying the defense, ball in his hands. Player A could easily take the shot, but instead, passes to Player B who’s wide open in the corner. Player B take a shot, but misses. It would be easy for Player A to say, “Why didn’t he make that shot? He is terrible!” which may be an accurate assessment of skills, but instead, he chooses to ask hims

THE CHILD AS A LIVING PROPHECY “When we protect the youngest members of the human family, we build a better world.” - António Guterres There are moments in history when the future does not arrive as a machine, a market, or a manifesto. It arrives as a child. Not merely as a biological beginning, but as a living threshold - a soft, watchful, radiant presence through which a civilization quietly reveals what it believes about life itself. Whether it chooses tenderness or force.

Perfect powder. Luxury accommodations. Lively restaurants. An experience designed with a jet-set, snow-fiend in mind. We could be talking about Aspen, Vail, Megève, Cortina d’Ampezzo or Whistler; but we’re talking about Hakuba Valley in – you might have guessed it – Japan. From December to May each year, skiers-who-know flock to the mountainous village in the Nagano Prefecture that hosted part of the 1998 Winter Olympics. Since it’s on the same island as Tokyo, it’s a simple

Anne Hathaway is talking about work-life balance, a concept that actresses were asked about for decades and their male counterparts never were. It may have reached its apex (or nadir, depending on how you look at it) in 2013, when Sheryl Sandberg told every woman to lean in, that they could “have it all”, which mostly meant having a family and a full-throttle career and no time to feel adequate at any of it. For a while, everyone seemed to agree that this was a good thing. In