A Million Little Pieces

Just read A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. I had heard a lot of the hype about this. I went to a Wayne Dyer workshop in Boston a couple weeks ago and he recommended it. Apparently, the guy "embellished" a few things in this memoir and didn't say so. He also used some quotes, most notably from the Tao Te Ching without giving proper credit. (Let's face it, unless you can read Chinese from 2500 years ago, you are reading somebody's translation which is copyrighted.) No matter, the story is fascinating and highly recommended for anyone struggling with addiction. It reminds me of Burroughs' Junky, but more coherent. I liked it so much I am going to read the sequel, My Friend Lenny.

Went to my first Tai Chi class at the new dojo...

I hadn't been practicing much over the last several years. I decided to go back to class for a tune up. Problem is that I couldn't find anybody in Cleveland that teaches the Yang 108 Movement Long Form. Everybody was either doing the Yang Short Form or Wu, Sun, or Chen styles. I really focused on it one day and said to myself, "Hey, BMac, there's got to be someplace out there." So I did some reintensified Googling and lo and behold, The Shao-Lin Center pops up. WOW! As they say, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

So I go Saturday and meat the Sifu. Very nice man and a small class - only about 5 of us. It was awesome to get back in that environment and just relax. As the Sifu told me, he has seen the Yang form done all over the world and it's different everywhere you go. His was definitely different than what I learned in Texas. No matter - it will do me just fine. I can't wait to go back.