Saturday, Day 9

We're watching Hobbes, queen of the cats. We're also watching "Open Your Eyes," the Spanish film that was remade into "Vanilla Sky" with Tom Cruise. I think it's more fun to watch Hobbes.

We started the day by attending the funeral of Chan. He moved to Oregon from China about 25 year ago and started teaching tai chi. Our teacher is one of his many students. One of Chan's dictums is that you are a better student if you also teach. It must be one of those "little grasshopper" Eastern things

Chan was about 80 years old when he died, but he looked much younger. He liked to make sound effects while he students performed. I think he must have been a happy person. He certainly smiled a lot.

We've just started learning the 108-form. Our teacher, Bryan, was learning the form himself from Chan. Bryan had only gotten to about the 80th movement. It takes years to learn the form, so we probably have a couple years worth of material before our teacher runs out of movements. Then we're stranded. And so it goes.

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