I worked all day on mowing lawns, mulching, installing some pipe, and repairing drip lines. A beautiful, warm, and breezy Spring day. Taiji at dawn.
Tai Chi Chuan and gardening have a lot in common: a productive use of the body, relaxing the body by exercise, calming to the spirit, natural and close to the earth, a backyard activity, unhurried, consistent with the Five Precepts, environmentally low impact, nurturing, the cultivation of beauty, gentle, open-ended, pleasing to the senses, a daily effort, and endless.
Gardeners must be patient, so too Taiji players. Our gardens are never complete, neither are we. Our gardens need improvement, so does our form. Another day is a fine opportunity for cultivating our garden, so too for ourselves.
We just have now, and a plan for tomorrow. The past and distant future are interesting, often compelling, but we have our true being defined by what we will accomplish today. So, on this fine late spring day - water the garden and discover the Cloud Hands.
"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling,
a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way
of the best happiness."
- Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
11:21:42 AM 
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