Amazing things can happen when you go outside at midnight with a stick. Chalkstone river bluffs, a meteor, a deer appears and stomps its hoof at me, an animal that sounds like a flute, and I keep waving the stick around cutting the sky.
Vacation with a Stick
Finishing up vacation, been happy as a clam running around with a stick on family lands overlooking the Missouri River…
Secret Blackberries
After a session running around with the boh, at the point where I feel tired and free, I walk over to the blackberries I found at the end of running eiko (cutting the sky). I pick three of them and eat each one as if it’s the last blackberry ever. A lot of energy from a blackberry.
Shintaido Demo at the Japan Festival, West Hartford, CT
A pleasure to participate in the Japan Festival this weekend with longtime friends and Shintaido practitioners. The video shows a some of our movements, and ways we use them to connect with others and with nature — central themes in Shintaido. It was my first time wearing the hakama, the multi-pleated pants worn by instructor-level practitioners — grateful for help from instructors … Read More
Haiku 6/4/15
Scratching sound up there / on the roof can mean one thing — the squirrel is back.
Center of the Sun
Biggest freshest dandelion I’ve ever seen, in our side yard. I could dive right into it.
Winter practice (kangeiko) at Shintaido Farm…
Shintaido North East gathers for special practice over a two days a couple times a year. Here we are at our winter practice with friends from Quebec, meeting to sharpen our focus in the new year.