Numbers on Our Backs

Maybe this is as good as it gets. Life as we know it. All the convenience, the comfort, our opportunity. Look at what is our trend, remember where it is that we have come from. As a species, we are far from being sustainable. With this momentum, something’s gotta give. When my kids grow up it’s …
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My Summer of Yin

Summertime is my slow time. Seasonally speaking, I see this as an opportunity to gently downshift. My workouts soften, my diet decreases, I think of the Summer as my lazy time.  Summer is the season of Yang. It’s bright, it’s hot, it’s a time for action. So that’s why I offset it with Yin. Yin …
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Tai Chi Push Hands in High Park

Get ready for our upcoming Tai Chi community gathering! Tai Chi Pushing Hands for the People!! Sunday July 7th at 10:15am in High Park We are thrilled to invite all experienced practitioners to join us for a friendly push-hands outing. This is a wonderful opportunity to practice, socialize, and form connections with other Tai Chi …
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Safe Spaces – Group Stupid

When it’s good, we imagine it to be forevermore.  When it’s bad, we fear it will never end.  Unknowing and uncomfortable, we continue grasping at the seemingly solid. Self deception like a defence mechanism, disappointed more often than not.  The safer we design it, the smaller our worlds become. Never has the world been a …
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Divided We Couch – Group Stupid – TWW

Pick a side. Do it now. The deception game is a monster machine.  I am not wholly part of any one faction. And at the same time I am everything you are.  Feeling arrives before anything else. It’s the thought that comes second.  Otherness is an idea, backed by a heart that is fearful.  —