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cassy_gIn the midst of all the errands of the day, I made some important decisions about the direction I intend to go with my life.
First, I signed back up at the local (indoor) swimming pool. It's a wonderful place, and not very expensive, the pool is just cool enough that as you swim and get hot it feels refreshing against your face. When I walked in, the smell of chlorine made me nostalgic, and I felt once more at home. I love being in and part of the water, even though I know it will take a couple of weeks for my one working lung to decide that it can take that kind of stress.
Two, I signed up for a month of Tai Chi Chaun again at the Chinese Shao-lin Center under Sifu Reid. Just a month, I don't know if my budget is going to allow me to take it longer than that. I will have to see. I took it for a few months right before Daniel died, and it was second only to swimming in importance to me. I found the concentration level required to perform what seems so effortless to be utterly profound. I've missed it every day since I stopped going. Sifu even remembered me and my short lived presence with them, he made me feel welcome, as if I had never been gone.
Many of you may wonder why I have taken these seemingly enormous steps, and the answer is very simply because it's time to do so.
First, I signed back up at the local (indoor) swimming pool. It's a wonderful place, and not very expensive, the pool is just cool enough that as you swim and get hot it feels refreshing against your face. When I walked in, the smell of chlorine made me nostalgic, and I felt once more at home. I love being in and part of the water, even though I know it will take a couple of weeks for my one working lung to decide that it can take that kind of stress.
Two, I signed up for a month of Tai Chi Chaun again at the Chinese Shao-lin Center under Sifu Reid. Just a month, I don't know if my budget is going to allow me to take it longer than that. I will have to see. I took it for a few months right before Daniel died, and it was second only to swimming in importance to me. I found the concentration level required to perform what seems so effortless to be utterly profound. I've missed it every day since I stopped going. Sifu even remembered me and my short lived presence with them, he made me feel welcome, as if I had never been gone.
Many of you may wonder why I have taken these seemingly enormous steps, and the answer is very simply because it's time to do so.
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:48 pm (UTC)I've been looking for somewhere to learn, but alas, I'm limited by places I can reach via bus here in Marietta. Enjoy!
- ES
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Date: 2003-09-16 02:07 am (UTC)The Tai Chi Chaun classes are Monday 8pm-9pm, Wednesday 7pm-8pm and Saturday, umm I have to look, but I think from 12pm-1pm.
You don't have to go to all the classes, and as it is, I won't be able to make the Wednesday evening ones.
They also have "Open Classes" during the day on Tuesday and Thursday from 11am-1pm, and Friday night, I think 5pm-7pm.
They are kind of expensive, however, with a $200 deposit, which covers the first month and your uniform, and depending on the plan, a range from $80/month - $110/month.
Hence, why I am not sure I will be able to continue for long, but I feel deeply the need to return to it.
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Date: 2003-09-17 03:13 am (UTC)My workout schedule has fallen into disuse. I keep intending to get back into the swing of things but . . .
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Date: 2003-09-18 09:35 pm (UTC)Maybe if your own life settles down again, you can get back into your own workout schedule (of course, I am assuming it was one you enjoyed.)