Moving forward

Things happened to me this week that seemed negative to start but ended up being very beneficial . I was given a Nike + for Christmas that was a great motivator for my running. In the beginning, before I really knew how to use it I thought it was great. After two weeks of struggling to calibrate it I wanted to through it in the garbage. Randy just get a new phone and gave his itouch to me and Lacey to share. It happens that I can down load some running programs off the internet from Nike. I have found one that suits my needs better than the one I was struggling with. One small change in my routine has given me new energy.
In turn I have had a good week for intuition and was able to pick up on some people's intentions. I'm not talking about mind reading or anything like that, more like being on the same wave length as someone else. Any way things are going smooth. I have gotten most of my form relearned with the help of a fellow Sifu. I feel like it really counts now as before I felt like I was cheating .

Linda Shipalesky, Silent River Kung Fu, Stony Plain Alberta Canada

Living hero # 1 Mary Kavanagh

Mary Kavanagh was born in Dublin Ireland in the dirty thirty's. She has fought adversity most of her life. She recalls stories of living in the depression and through world war two. She had ten siblings and a father who would be away in one war or another for years at a time. Yet Mary never tells any of these stories in a negative light. It is always with a twinkle in her eyes and a smile on her face. She choses to remember the positive memories. She married in her early twenties and as were the mind set of the times the man in the family dominated his wife with an iron hand. John her husband always wanted to be a Cowboy so on many occasion traveled to Canada for months at a time only to return and go again when the dream became to much to bare. The last time he traveled Mary sold everything,packed up there four kids and followed. John was now stuck in Canada and the dream quickly became a nightmare. The next forty years Mary lived with a bitter man. He was never physically abusive but was especially mentally so. Mary through the whole thing never stopped her devotion to him. She loved him with everything she had. When at the age of Seventy two John's health took a turn for the worst and was unable to drive trapping them both on a acreage out side of Stony Plain Alberta,Mary did the only thing she could and learned to drive. She was sixty seven. She moved them to town and John had to be moved into a nursing home and passed away shortly after. Mary did not lay down too. Instead she started life over without him. She was now free of the tyranny of John and could do and say as she pleased. She joined line dancing and lane bowling. She does Pastoral care which is bringing the church and Holy communion to the shut in's in Stony PLain and Spruce Grove. She does Square dancing and does a bit of driving Miss Daisy for people she knows in need. Mary carry's sunshine with her where ever she goes. Never has an unkind word for anyone and always see's a silver lining in every crisis. " There now, sit down and have a cup of tea and things will seem better" She is my living hero. She has learned to stay in the Moment and engage in the here and now.
Mary Kavanagh is my Mother.

Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu Stony Plain Alberta

All or nothing

I was raised on tea. You know the old joke they feed it to me in a baby bottle. Well in my cause its true. It had a lot of milk and sugar added to it but there you are. Needless to say I have drank tea all my life. From the first thing in the morning to the last thing at night. As a child if you were in a crisis or upset about something the answer from my parents was, " there now sit down and have a nice cup of tea." It was the cure all for everything. Anyway the point of the story is that this last year or so I progressed from just any tea to Chia tea from Starbucks. It replaced all need for any other type any time of the day. Even though on some mornings it would upset my stomach old habits dye hard. Along comes UBBT seven and it gave me a perfect excuse to go off of tea. I haven't had a single cup in two weeks! I won't give you the imprecision that I don't want it. I do. But I figure I can hold out for at least three months. April first, thats the dead line. WOW, it makes me sweat even to think about it.
Wish me luck!

Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu Stony Plain Alberta Canada

Gifts, gadgets and stuff

I'm off to a running or should I say walking start. I got a great gadget from Santa this year that hooks up to my ipod. It keeps track of your milage and calories . You can also go on line and link up with other people using this device and challenge them to walks, runs etc. if it helps to keep me motivated I'm all for it. The form I choose to repeat is a little shakey though. I can only recall about half of it so I have to get some help with the end. I'm not sure if I can count half of it as a rep. though.
Classes are always busy in January so all in all I'm hopping.

Linda Shipalesky Silent River Kung Fu Stony Plain, Alberta