learn Tai Chi

at the local college. If I get the job with the steady income this week I will sign up. There are only 4 openings left.

I hope I hear tomorrow about the job and it is positive.

Supreme Softness

T’ai chi is based on the principles of Taoism, and its invention dates back about a thousand years. According to legend, a Taoist monk named Chang San Feng was watching a crane trying to catch a snake. Every time the bird struck with its beak, the snake would gently slide out of the way, and this defense was so successful that the crane eventually gave up.

Chang remembered Lao Tzu’s words in the Tao Te Ching: “The soft overcomes the hard.” This image led him to develop a fighting art based on softness, yielding, and flexibility, rather than brute force.

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has a Tai Chi class starting soon. It is for 7 weeks and the cost is $39. That should give me plenty of time to see if it is something I’d like to do.

Wonder if it would strengthen my knees?. They seem very weak lately. Not used to the mountainous terrain. ;)

for a while and really cannot get into it at all.

So I am going to learn Tai Chi. My biggest concern is that my knees have been really weak the past few weeks. I am hoping this will strengthen them.