Soul Food

Deciding the Saturday Morning Guided Practice Session would be an excellent time for me to get together with some of my student/friends, I made the necessary phone calls, and was delighted when all seven persons responded, “Yes, I would love to attend the practice session, then go to your home for a potluck lunch.” How perfect!

There were times Friday evening and early Saturday morning, while I was hustling to get everything in order, when I asked myself, “Why do I do these things? Why do I make extra work for myself?” The answer was to be made clear to me.

Saturday afternoon, after the practice, sitting around the dining room table with my student/friends, I listened as they talked, joked and laughed together in a relaxed manner. It was obvious their appetite was for companionship and conversation. Food for the soul was more important to them than food for the body. As I watched and listened, I silently reflected, “This is why I do it, and it is so beautiful. Thank you, T’ai Chi Chih. You, too work in wondrous ways.”

And a big THANK YOU to Jan Arrott, leader of the group practice. She handled the situation of a room filled to capacity with T’ai Chi Chih persons in a calm, competent manner.

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the bird’s song is heard in my heart
silently I respond from my heart

– Virginia Shilson