Will continue to post grace in small things in the community, but am closing this blog. Might start a new one at some point in the future.
learn4kicks
money isn't everything
Monthly Archives: August 2010
grace in small things 21
21 days happy, cheerful voices on the phone courtesy of a bird I think, a random purple flower growing in front garden which is very similar to ones on a small bush next door swans and cygnets, less fluffy and…
Martial Artificial
I have not been learning martial arts for that long, but long enough to find the O’Reilly article about Teachers becoming Senseis while tech handles drills – somewhat disturbing and mildly offensive. Like the well known martial art of six…
Posted in Uncategorized
grace in small things 20
TENS machine. Brought it to work today. Still struggling with back – was doing better but caught in a security gate both ways on Monday which wrenched it again but not too badly. Accepting that it will get better when…
Faith and martial arts books
Having just yawned instead of breathed through qigong this evening, am abandoning anatomy for the rest of the evening as well. Anatomy is beautiful but never ending – as soon as you think you’ve got one set of terms, there’s…
grace in small things 19
catching the right train a ladybird landing on a page of a book I was reading which was about insects and how they form. It only sat there a few seconds, but long enough sun occasionally peeping through grey skies…
grace in small things 18
life on the other side of difficult conversations peaceful early walk sunny morning, everything more still and slow commuters more relaxed helpful staff, not needing too much explanation to sort things
grace in small things 17
chatting about families with nice lady, in long queue at post office online supermarket shopping which I’ve been doing since the no-lifting: fruit isn’t as bad as I had thought it might be getting lots of reward and green points…
Wonderful words of wisdom for a student going to university
Reproduced with kind permission of Charles Brewer from my taekwondo club, who collated all of these (I believe one or two from personal experience too) where we were recently putting together advice for a female who is going to university…
Reconciling violence and compassion, the female perspective?
Still deep in the woods but decided to sit down for a while. As I am continuing to move towards something to do with physiotherapy – the physical energy is of great interest. So much of the internal martial arts…
grace in small things 16
kindness scent of sweet peas blackberries emerging in clumps opening post instead of ignoring it and sorting things young pears on a pear tree
