Taichichih Updates: Events, Subscriptions & Giving Tips
Taichichih.org/events
Reminder to Teachers: If you are offering a daylong or weekend virtual (or real-life) event, you may have it posted on taichichih.org and on the back page of The Vital Force. Simply send details to me.
Vital Force Subscription Auto-Renewals
Since the subscription renewal rate for The Vital Force is about 95%, and because the administrative time to contact every subscriber each year is huge, we thought it was safe to move to auto-renewal. What? When you subscribe online (which we highly encourage because that also saves us from having to deposit checks), your subscription will renew automatically on that date each year – unless you tell us otherwise. I suggest you note that date, just in case you want to cancel your membership. Of course, we hope you never cancel ☺
Time Is an Illusion
As Justin Stone wrote and said, “Time is an illusion.” As practitioners know, T’ai Chi Chih is done in 40 minutes, but it’s timeless.
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present."
~~ T.S. Eliot in 'Four Quartets':
Justin Stone Quotation Cards
Mary Ruiz chooses a different card each week to focus on during her TCC practice. And her Buddha holds the space.
Year-End Tax-Wise Giving Tips to a 501(c)3
Special incentives to encourage charitable giving in 2020 are set to expire on December 31. A temporary 100% AGI deduction for cash gifts when itemizing allows especially generous donors to reduce their 2020 federal income tax to zero. If you don’t itemize your deductions, you may reduce your taxable income by $300 above the federal standard deduction for your contributions of cash to public charities
A gift of appreciated securities provides the giver with the additional advantage of avoiding capital gains tax that may be incurred if you were to sell the securities. The more highly appreciated the security, the more capital gains tax you will avoid.
