Monthly Archives: April 2007

Second Reality is Twice Weirder than Fiction

April 30, 2007 – 6:59 pm

I have an account on Second Life, but don’t play as much as I used to.  I originally got the account to research an idea for a science fiction novel involving virtual reality.  Second Life is odd, and in many ways not a classic game in the sense that there are no hard-and-fast measures of [...]

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Mondays

April 30, 2007 – 2:55 pm

A rare flower’s smile
Drinks to celebrate nothing
No time to write

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The Art of Peace – Eight

April 27, 2007 – 7:11 am

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.
I have heard, and I believe, that you are either improving in life, or degrading, you [...]

By Travis | Posted in Aikido | Comments (0)

The Art of Peace – Seven

April 26, 2007 – 8:03 am

Eight forces sustain creation:
Movement and stillness,
Solidification and fluidity,
Extension and contraction,
Unification and division.
In many ways Aikido is a study of opposites. Each of the above forces are employed at different times in Aikido practice. One key that has been useful to me is to break down a motion into the above pairings and to [...]

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Be careful what You say, it may come back to haunt Me

April 26, 2007 – 6:03 am

One of the tools I have learned for trying to make sense of my own life, and my reaction to it, is to trace reactions and impulses to the places in my life of crisis where they developed. I was thinking about body image today and remembered one of the incidents which contributed to [...]

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