In much of Asia, orange is the color of love, warmth, happiness — and a particular kind of intensity. Buddhist monks wear orange robes.

Esoteric refers to a long life beginning with a childhood reading FBI agent training materials, journalism in the seventies, coal mining, steel making, training and teaching aikido in Japan, and working with international scientists in epidemiology and public health research. And all the while, I was reading Vonnegut to Louis L’Amour. The interests don’t braid into a single category. They braid into each other.

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