Accepting Life’s Changes

I would like to express my gratitude to all the T’ai Chi Chih teachers that I have had contact with in the last eleven years. I will miss your support and love you have bestowed upon me. Ours was a mutually supportive relationship, a dance, in which we allowed love to flow. I believe that we have been enriched through mutual respect and acceptance. I thank you for allowing me into your lives and opening to my various sharings through my workshops and performances.

I am sorry that Steve is no longer the spiritual head and T’ai Chi Chih trainer. He has the spiritual maturity and authority which made him the successful leader he was, is. Steve displayed and lived the integrity necessary for his position. As he continued to spiritually unfold over the years the T’ai Chi Chih community became a rich and more loving family.

I know that life is a process of change and our relationship with the T’ai Chi Chih community is no exception. Change occurs on many different levels and whatever needs to happen will! This may be a simplistic way of looking at life, but my experiences bear this out. As Justin said: “My only desire is for spring to follow winter.”

I now accept what is unfolding though I could not have said this at the beginning of the change. I am at peace. Yes, I will miss our yearly or by-yearly interactions but life holds many open doors and possibilities.

Justin will always remain a special friend. We have had a long lasting and close relationship. I do not see this changing. Mutual trust and love are at the core of our relationship, perhaps going back lifetimes. The ups and downs of lights and shadows do not tarnish such friendship and love.

I salute all of my dear T’ai Chi Chih friends and hold you in my heart. Even if not in each others immediate company, we remain in harmonious closeness.

– In Gratitude and Love, Lia Ridley