Categories: Student Experiences & Reflections
An Amazing Discovery
By: Margaret Lang Nelson
Minnetonka, Minnesota
A few weeks ago I was consulting Justin Stone’s photo text for guidance on Six Healing Sounds when a receipt fell out of the book. It was dated September 8, 1987 and said “Received of Margaret M. Lang, $50, 8-week T’ai Chi Chih class. 5:30pm – 7:00pm. El Centro Pastoral. Thank you. Carmen L. Brocklehurst.”
Margaret M. Lang was my mother, who in 1987 was a vibrant 80-year-old, living with my father in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I had no idea she had taken a TCC class.
I can’t remember where the book came from, but I must have kept it when I was going through her things after she died in 2003. I have used that book many times, having stored materials in it from my own TCC classes, which began in 2008, in Minnesota. After all those years, that receipt and its connection to my mother and TCC only came to light a few weeks ago. Amazing.
Topics: Books and Media, Grief and Loss, Minnesota, Personal Stories
Originally appeared in: May 2015