Year: 2015

Myanmar – A Gallery of Miscellaneous photos. Continue reading “Myanmar – Miscellaneous Photos” →

Myanmar – Weavers (A photo gallery.) Continue reading “Myanmar – Weavers” →

Myanmar – Inle Lake (A photo gallery.)  Continue reading “Myanmar – Inle Lake” →

I must apologize again for my intermittent blogs. I am not used to writing a regular journal nor have I developed the habit of writing at a certain time in the morning or reading the newspaper every day. I cannot dispense ideas at the spur of the moment or write about important issues unless I have had the opportunity to assess the implications of an event. I cannot talk about my daily activities and chores either. From the social network media I have seen, participants/bloggers even write about and post photos of what they eat or something mushy or trashy they have read in the media, an enormous trivia if there’s one. I do very little socializing because I have a small circle of friends and most of them do not live in the area. My personal life revolves around a few things that I can count on the fingers of one hand – following the Daoist canon and practices (including Qigong and Neidan/internal alchemy), going to the gym whenever I can for a regimen of Classical Yang Family Tai chi chuan fist and weapons Wudang forms and Buddhist Shaolin sets, reading materials (books, magazines and journals) I could get hold of. Continue reading “Healing in Myanmar” →

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I have neglected the easy chore of sending the materials to post on the website. I spent the time reading books (among them, Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, a large set of materials on the divine feminine and the goddess, and Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman) and going to the gym and organizing my basement library. Continue reading “September 2015 News” →

When I left Peru in May 2014, I could not find my camera. I reported the loss to the hotel management and asked them to conduct an investigation. I could not remember where I put it when I left for the airport but later, it occurred to me that the last time I had it, I put it inside the luggage that I deposited with the hotel staff while I was waiting for limousine service. I got in touch with the tour company and told them about the “lost” camera. Things began to move fast. Continue reading “Peru Photo Gallery” →

While watching TV programs and reading articles about the death of civilians at the hands of the police in different cities in the US, I often think about that morning 7 years ago when a cop confronted me in Easton, PA.

I used to practice Traditional Yang Family Tai chi chuan early in the morning in a park along the Delaware River when I lived just a block away. It was a practice I started cultivating decades before in the Luneta, a park in the Philippines, when I began studying Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan at the Hua Eng Athletic Club in Binondo, part of Manila’s Chinatown, in 1968. Continue reading “Tai Chi Chuan Sword and the Cop” →