Conflict is what makes life interesting!

[hollyking]

Last night was my first taiji lesson with artspawnchen. I stretched muscles that I didn't know existed. I should get hollyqueen to take pictures of me in each of the positions so that I can compare my current range of movement with what I'll be able to do in the future. I've taken taiji classes before and I've looked long and hard to find a teacher who taught the practical application along with the forms. tylik is a one of those teachers and I am looking forward to learning a lot from her.

I spent my lunch today filling out paperwork for joining the Redmond ARES group and finding other ARES/RACES groups in the area. I found ARES/RACES of King County and Washington State ARES/RACES.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about my hobbies and what I want to accomplish with my life. This has allowed me to find the few hobbies and a purpose for my life. My purpose is to help other people and the practical application of that is volunteering my time and skills for public service and emergency communications. The conflict is that the taiji classes are on Monday nights and the ARES montly meetings are on Monday nights.

I am already missing one class a month for a meeting but that would be two each month if keep to my purpose. Missing every other class is unfair to the teacher, other students, and myself. I think I'll need to check out some of the other teachers that tylik recommended. Someone has to teach a class on other nights.

Comments

[tylik.livejournal.com]

One thing you could do is drop by the Sunday classes on off weeks and practice the 18 form with that class. They're doing the whole thing, but it would probably at least help you stay caught up.

[hollyking.livejournal.com]

When are the classes on Sunday? While some Mondays are busy every Sunday evening is filled with ARES nets on the air. On the plus side I can participate in the nets at different locations if I throw my gear in the car.

[tylik.livejournal.com]

These are morning classes, about five minutes from Dustin's, up Avondale road. (The directions should be in the memories under artspawnchen.) They start at 9:30, with warm-ups, then conditioning, drills, then open hand, then weapons. If you showed up at 10:15 or so and warmed up with poetry_lady (conditioning is optional, not everyone joins in) you'd be ready in plenty of time for doing open hand with us.

[tylik.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about this, and it does occur to me that we've rarely started on open hand forms before 11:00, recently, though I've been thinking of trying to push it back to 10:45. Anyhow, if you wanted to try this, you could either show up just in time for forms, or you might contact poetry_lady and show up at the same time she does for warm ups. I recommend the warm ups, of course, but I realize Sunday mornings can be difficult...