Growing A Minnesota Facebook Group

One evening, as our beginning T’ai Chi Chih class came to an end, one of my students asked, “Why don’t you have a TCC Facebook page?” I hoped she didn’t notice me recoiling in horror as I to casually mention, “I don’t really Facebook.” She was undaunted: “It’s easy; I’ll show you.” The following week she called up the page she had set up with me as administrator. All I needed to do was enter some information and launch it. I went home and played with it – adding information, times and dates about free classes being offered by local teachers. Now, when a teacher begins offering a new class, I post it on the Minnesota Facebook page. Last week we needed to cancel practice because of the heat, so I put a notice on our page.

I had resisted modern technology, thinking it had no place alongside TCC. I was wrong. The first night of our summer practice brought two young women, neither of whom I had seen before. Of course they had found it on Facebook; they said they had been looking for TCC practices for a long time. Three days later, I was leading the Saturday morning practice at Lake Harriet, and another student shared that she had found the practice on Facebook and was very excited. I am not technologically savvy, but I can type. From www.facebook.com, search for us under “MN tai chi chih community.” And while you’re at it, check out the new HYPERLINK “http://www.taichichih.org/”www.taichichih.org; it is amazing.

no

blunder

could be a

catastrophe

unless it

thundered

‘no’

– Jeff Hoepner

feel

feeling

what is it?

rocking motion

encased me in

a clear

wrap

– Brock

fear

will leave

me so that

I can flourish

and allow

myself

peace

– Bo Waddell

locked

doors barred

windows but

freedom inside

t’ai chi chih

I flow

free

– L.O.

new

green leaves

on old trees

morning light shines

sparkling bright

new life

born

– Margy Gates