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The moon.\u00a0 Tonight.\u00a0 A darkening sky, blue behind the openings in the clouds and peeking out from behind a modest veil, a full Honey Extraction Moon, its color a silvered gold, honey-like and mysterious.\u00a0 I love the surprise of a beautiful moon in the sky, looking out on a familiar horizon to see it transformed by the ordinary extraordinary moon.\u00a0 The moons from now through the end of the year often have a wow factor.\u00a0 The Harvest Moon.\u00a0 The Thanksgiving moon rising over stubbled fields coated with snow.\u00a0 The Winter Solstice moon, sending lambent light onto the snow, casting faint shadows of trees, houses, people.<\/p>\n
This moon shone in the eastern sky as I returned from Tai Chi.\u00a0 This was the 20th week and the teacher, Cheryl, announced, again, that we were close to a third of the way through the form.\u00a0 “It’s a milestone,” said Cliff, a 13 year practitioner.\u00a0 A third of the way through.\u00a0 20 weeks.\u00a0 At this pace it will be a year before we have worked our way through the whole form.\u00a0 Being patient with myself.\u00a0 Learning that in this class.<\/p>\n
At points now I feel a grace coming into my motions, a fluidity beyond learning the choreography, beginning to make it mine, to work from the inside out rather than the outside only.\u00a0 Not often.\u00a0 But I have felt it.<\/p>\n
Thought about Cliff, a younger guy, maybe in his forties, having practiced 13 years.\u00a0 Realized I’ll be 77 by the time I hit 13 years.\u00a0 Whoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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