My studies and my religion

This is going to be long, and I apologize for that, but I’ve had this stuff on my mind for a long time and feel like I need to dish. Here goes:
A couple of my colleagues make mention of their spiritual or philosophical convictions in reference to their practice of Chinese medicine in their blogs [...]

Year of Living Sagely

So my amigos over at Even Unto China and Deepest Health have come up with a new idea for overextending one’s life-force..errr…I mean cultivating oneself for the new year, and they’re calling it “The Year of Living Sagely”. The idea, essentially, is to conduct ones life according to classical Chinese medical texts (such as the [...]

Man vs. Breakfast

I have recently adopted a new breakfast food, that being Mccann’s Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal, otherwise known as “Trollocs in a Can.” Wow. This stuff makes Metamucil look like it’s not trying hard enough.
The additional point of interest is that upon tasting it for the first time-having only had Quaker Instant oatmeal to this point-was [...]

Wang Peisheng and Taijiquan applications

Here’s a great video of the late and illustrious Wang Peisheng of Wu style Taijiquan fame demonstrating applications and principles. This is very like what I spent last weekend doing with Chang Yukai.
Also here.
One of his disciples wrote one of my favorite martial arts books.
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Random Seven

Two different readers have tagged me for this, so away we go:
Seven random facts about me:
1. I was (lightly) recruited for the CIA when I was a freshman at FSU. It’s all a little foggy now, but I believe they were looking for English majors to apply for analyst positions once they graduated, and maybe [...]

The Final Word on the previous entry

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Defending Starbucks

I just got this forwarded to me from someone who is particularly prone to forwarding dumb things, and I feel the need to defend my favorite establishment.
If you’ve received this email, I’m sorry but it’s completely untrue. Every Starbucks that I’ve been to in the state of Florida since the war started has had [...]

Oh my God, the pain….

Yah so I did two chop socky seminars this weekend with a master from Taiwan. Saturday was four hours of Tongbeiquan, and Sunday was five hours of Yang Family Taijiquan applications. So yah, I can’t move very well right now. All martially useful muscles are locked tight, all joints are too sore to use. One [...]

Beginners tips for the Shang Han Lun

The Shang Han Lun is, despite its tremendous age, one of the most
sophisticated and useful medical manuals ever written. It’s also big,
scary, and poorly taught in many schools. However, if you want to be
able to successfully treat everything from the annual suffering caused
by cold and flu to the big bugs that scare the pants off [...]