Category: Reiki City Guide

Eight million people, five boroughs, approximately 6,300 miles of sidewalk, and a subway system that deposits you into the same car as a hedge fund manager, a Dominican grandmother, an…

St. Paul has the largest concentration of Hmong Americans of any city in the United States — a community whose shaman tradition, the txiv neeb practice, involves a healer navigating…

Amazon’s Seattle headquarters processes more data per second than most countries, and the people who built it, support it, and compete around it absorb a form of cognitive load that…

The Gateway Arch stands at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers as a monument to westward expansion, but St. Louis itself was never quite the West — it…

Three hundred sixty days of sun press down on the Pinellas Peninsula with a kind of insistence that shapes daily life in St. Petersburg in ways visitors rarely notice. Long-term…

The San Joaquin Delta wraps around Stockton in a network of waterways — more than a thousand miles of them — connecting the city to the agricultural heart of California….

Tampa averages more lightning strikes per square mile than any other city in the United States — a meteorological fact that locals call the “lightning capital” designation and tourists mostly…

Toledo made glass. Libby Glass, Owens Illinois, and the dozens of manufacturers that clustered along the Maumee River established the Glass City’s industrial identity through generations of skilled manufacturing work,…

Tulsa is a city of unexpected depth. The Art Deco skyline that oil money built in the 1920s rivals any in the country — the Philtower, the Boston Avenue Methodist…

Naval Air Station Oceana is one of the largest Navy installations on the East Coast, and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story sits at the water’s edge nearby. Virginia Beach…

Power produces a specific kind of depletion. Washington is full of people who chose careers defined by the belief that what they do changes things — and then must live,…

Tucson’s Sonoran Desert is not the brown, empty desert of casual imagination. It is one of the most biologically diverse desert ecosystems on Earth, green with saguaro cactus, palo verde…

Cessna, Beechcraft, and Spirit AeroSystems built Wichita into the Aviation Capital of the World, and the precision engineering culture of aerospace manufacturing has shaped the city’s psychology in ways that…

Winston-Salem carries two identities in one hyphenated name — the old tobacco economy of R.J. Reynolds and the Moravian settlement heritage of Salem, the latter still visible in Old Salem’s…

Between NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke, the Research Triangle employs more PhD-level scientists, biomedical researchers, and clinical professionals per capita than almost anywhere in the American South. That density…

Portland’s rain is not melodramatic in the Seattle way; it is relentless in a specific, gray, months-long way that settles into the body as a low-frequency dampness that no amount…

Corporate relocations put Toyota, Liberty Mutual, JPMorgan Chase, and dozens of other major companies in Plano over the past two decades, producing a city that looks like it was assembled…

Three rivers converge at Pittsburgh’s Point — the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the Ohio — and the city’s 446 bridges, more than any other city in the world, were built…

When the temperature in Phoenix exceeds 110 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks at a stretch, staying indoors is not laziness but physiology. The Sun Belt boom that has driven Phoenix’s population…

The city that drafted the Declaration of Independence and birthed American democracy still carries the tension between its founding ideals and the grinding inequality visible in neighborhoods like North Philadelphia…

The bodies doing the work that keeps 75 million tourists moving through Orlando every year take a serious beating. Theme park ride operators at Disney and Universal stand on concrete…

Warren Buffett still lives in the Dundee house he bought in 1958 for $31,500 — a detail that captures something essential about Omaha’s relationship with value. This is a city…

Oklahoma City sits at the intersection of the Southern Plains and the Sunbelt, a sprawling metro of nearly 700,000 that runs on oil, healthcare, and a growing technology sector. The…

Oakland has been absorbing displacement longer than most American cities have been discussing it. The port economy that made West Oakland prosper, the redlining that concentrated Black wealth in specific…

Reno’s identity has been shifting faster than any other mid-size Nevada city. The casino-and-service economy that defined it for decades now coexists with a growing tech startup corridor, a University…