Calm. Down.

"Calm down" is what I heard before every posture today and I felt the room of 50 or so Calm down"
I arrived at my Tai Chi Silk Reeling workshop this morning s few minutes before the start at 9AM to see Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang and his companion in a bit of standing meditation in the alley entrance behind the dojo. Couldn't resist the photo. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is the 19th generation in his family who began the Chen style TaiChi. He travels all over the world teaching and is a friend and mentor of our teacher here so visits her school Embrace the Moon once a year. Now in his 60's he's been doing these forms since he was 8, has all kinds of international awards and a good sense of humor and one can almost understand his English. It's a privilege to study with him - there were many people who traveled quite a distance to be here this weekend.

And tonight we helped our friend M (blipper Mikeday) celebrate her 65th birthday with a party at her houseboat - good food and good folks !!

That's enough for me for one day....