A Joyful Dog

I lead a weekly lunchtime practice in Evergreen Hospital’s courtyard with two-to-nine people gathering for T’ai Chi Chih. Our courtyard is cobblestoned and circular with a central pond and an expanse of grass connecting the courtyard with the rest of the hospital’s grounds. We practice on the grass. At yesterday’s sunny, breezy practice, five of us were just beginning our second Joyous Breath when a large black dog came galloping through our group headed straight for the courtyard pond. He wriggled joyously in the water, then raced out through us again, … then joyously raced back out between us and out of sight.

We laughed as we caught the message — a mysterious JOYful dog during JOYous Breath doing JOY through Movement.