Had a great experience at the Moana ki Nui a Kiwa leisure centre here in Mangere. I surely felt leisurely as Chikako and I joined about twenty elders in a tai chi course taught, and my joints do feel GOOD:
HEre's the principles for Tai Chi (beginners) (from handout):
1. Make your movements slow, even and continuous...control your movements.
2. Move as though there is a gentle resistance. (cultivates your inner force).
3. Be aware of your weight transference. (Centre yourself, control your balance).
4. Body Alignment - keep body in upright position.
5. Loosening the joints...(Try consciously and gently stretch most joints from within, almost like an internal expansion of the joints).
6. Mental Focus. integrate external and internal...
10.31.2008
10.26.2008
A garden story
I hold a bouquet of pink roses in my hand. Plucked from a leaning rose bush vine that was weighted down with full bloom roses full of rainwater from this afternoon.
The responsible gardener is my aunty pisila who has a green thumb, like my aunty valu and my dad. Aunty valu's giant hibiscus stunned the eye, large bonnets of color that grew out forth from green foliage, on bushes that lined the chain link fence around the canary yellow house that now houses my cousin kase and her kids. Down the street is aunt manu's house, they have lived there since the 1970s when they first immigrated to utah from hawaii...and before that tonga. And one block beneath that, is Ramona Avenue where grandma 'ofa lives...her and grandpa vai bought the house when they first came to utah. last i was there, the meticulously manicured gardens were said to be the work of my dad's eldest brother, uncle hoko.
The responsible gardener is my aunty pisila who has a green thumb, like my aunty valu and my dad. Aunty valu's giant hibiscus stunned the eye, large bonnets of color that grew out forth from green foliage, on bushes that lined the chain link fence around the canary yellow house that now houses my cousin kase and her kids. Down the street is aunt manu's house, they have lived there since the 1970s when they first immigrated to utah from hawaii...and before that tonga. And one block beneath that, is Ramona Avenue where grandma 'ofa lives...her and grandpa vai bought the house when they first came to utah. last i was there, the meticulously manicured gardens were said to be the work of my dad's eldest brother, uncle hoko.
Life Writing
An umbrella term, that usefully doubly eclipses 1. the muddled arguments around the fictive non-concrete, constructed, narrative "I" (self, other, subject) of/in autobiography, and 2. the notion that autobiography is non-fiction...
and, emphasizes the texts themselves which may include diary, journal, travelogue, daybook, letters, poems, essays, testimonios, confessions, etc. etc. which are ALL biography in the literal sense, a WRITING of LIFE...
...and allows focus on the writing body....
and, emphasizes the texts themselves which may include diary, journal, travelogue, daybook, letters, poems, essays, testimonios, confessions, etc. etc. which are ALL biography in the literal sense, a WRITING of LIFE...
...and allows focus on the writing body....
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