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Deciding to take a gamble on the weather, with the aid of the forecasters, Kate planted some frost sensitive plants today:\u00a0 coleus, especially.\u00a0 She also planted artemisia, Jacob’s Ladder, alyssum and purple wave petunias.\u00a0 Mark weeded.\u00a0 Meanwhile I was in St. Paul doing my next to last session with Leslie.<\/p>\n
Tonight was Tai Chi.\u00a0 When I arrived, there was no one else there except the first teacher I encountered and an advanced student.\u00a0 Nobody else showed up, presumably due to mother’s day.\u00a0 That meant I had a personal class with two teachers.\u00a0 It was a revelation.\u00a0 This teacher, the one I met the first night of class, has a style that connects with me.<\/p>\n
She spoke about learning Chinese, listening to the words at night before she went to bed and in the morning before class and recommended, again, since she had done the same thing at the one class she taught, that I practice morning and night.\u00a0 Just immerse yourself, she said.\u00a0 We come to these things with such an achievement orientation and we have to jettison it, let go of mistakes, think of them as occurrences, concentrate on the process.<\/p>\n
Tai Chi has 13 different moves, a vocabulary of movement, a style of movement rooted in another culture.\u00a0 I’ve learned 5 of them so far.\u00a0 Well, sort of learned them.<\/p>\n
It was a good class. What I needed at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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