All right, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown,

and this episode is scheduled to post 12 hours before the solar eclipse of 2024.

So if you're hearing this, it means that the world has not ended yet.

And if, in fact, the world has ended, and this is the last thing I ever post. It feels remarkably

appropriate that my guest today is my dad, High Brown. Now, if the world hasn't ended,

and this is the first time you're ever listening to this show, it might not be the right episode to listen to

first. Regular listeners know there's really two aspects to what I do here. One of them is my own

personal story and thoughts and reflections that I offer in the intros and the outros. But the

thrust of what I do here is have conversations with other people who are really into yoga.

It's all about continuing yoga education and oral history,

and I think most of the people who listen are folks who have a passion for yoga

and enjoy communing with others of like interest.

However, every once in a while, I depart from that usual protocol and I offer something that is wholly personal for me. I've done a few episodes

with my daughters and I've done a couple of solo episodes with just me rambling on a bit.

And today, I'm offering you this talk with my dad.

And I certainly did not plan for this.

It's not something I would have conceived of doing necessarily, but I was talking to my dad a few weeks ago.

And we don't talk very often.

We do keep in touch, but my dad lives very far away.

And the last time I saw him was in January of 2019.

And out of nowhere, he made this offhanded comment about feeling like he wanted to find a way to

reflect on his life and have it recorded or written down and frankly i've just never heard

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