Linda Eskin Writes About Aikido, Learning, Training, Discovery, and Connection
Today we sit on Sensei’s deck,the ocean glinting twenty miles away. Weathered bamboo clatters softly overheadas we settle in to sit, scattered lightlylike leaves blown … Read more …
A friend recently gave me a book she thought I might enjoy, and I really have. It’s the sort of book that whatever you open … Read more …
Sick with an ordinary coldNothing to do but wait it outAnd feel sorry for myselfFor missing class Instead I settle in with videosRandom classes decades … Read more …
The same ocean breeze is here, warmed and softened as it made its way inland up nine miles of wide river valley, Still familiar, but … Read more …
Amazed at the joy available in Aikido. I mean, WTH? Breathless, smiling-for-no-reason joy.Joy for no reason. Excited-to-get-up-in-the-morning joy.Joy in everything. Full of energy, comfortable in my … Read more …
Sunday at midnight…Aikido not ‘til Tuesday.Forty-two long hours.
I’ve been doing more weapons classes, and really enjoying them. There’s something that feels more centered and focused about working with weapons. Well… most of … Read more …
Have I got your attention? Good. ;-) It’s not a trick. This really is about love and seduction. And Aikido. I walk at lunchtime. One … Read more …
There is class on Monday (day 4 of 16), but because of a prior commitment I won’t be there. So no training notes for day … Read more …
