The Lighter Side (February 2023)

From the December 2000 Vital Force

1. When teaching seated TCC, I was showing Bob, one of the seniors, how important it is to shift from the waist. To illustrate further I said, “Most guys like cars, so I’ll use a car analogy. The waist is like the engine; it gets everything moving.” Somewhat concerned, he grabbed his waist and said, “But what if you have a big belly?” I replied, “That just means you have more horsepower.”

2. One evening at the UMBC college campus, I held practice outdoors. Thirty students and I enjoyed performing the movements to the soft sounds of birds and cicadas. As we were doing the Six Healing Sounds, we were startled by the sudden bang and clatter of a big hubcap as it flew off a car and bounced towards us. The students tried desperately to hold back their laughter, as the hubcap kept wobbling and rolling like it had a life of its own. Going with the flow, I said that was the Seventh Healing Sound. 

3. Did you hear about the new Zen vacuum cleaner? It comes with no attachments.

4. After mentioning how Chi is a healing current and how the body tries to balance itself, one very fit twenty-something college student (who had not been getting enough sleep), embarrassedly admitted that after the previous TCC class, he felt so sleepy that he returned to his dorm room in the mid-afternoon to take a nap.