I've had an additional thought about William Chen's workshop. Today and tonight I began to feel energy growing around the workshop in an unprecedentedly powerful way. And, plainly factually, some very good people are coming.

I'm actively encouraging those who feel unable; to come in whatever way they can do it. Most certainly I feel so about you.

I've found these kinds of feelings of mine to be reliable ones over and over again. I don't want it to sound like I think I'm infallible, of course—ha! What a great joke that is! Yet I have a lot of confidence in these intimations based on such experience.

I know you don't now have the funds to do it. But nevertheless I encourage you to get into your most creative mode and beg, borrow, almost steal to find your way here.

William Chen told me he has more of what he calls "information" this year than he's had before. You know his information means new discoveries in Tai Chi that are populating his developing system destined to transform the face of the entire field. Probably, I think, resulting in a new style named after him in its own time the way these kinds of things go.

You and I are part of that. Be here for what now looks to be his last gesture with us in fashioning the crown of it all! We know he will not return in 2011.

I'm confident you can find a way or that a way will find you if you are alert. Even with funds to pay all or part of the tuition although you well know, my dear friends, I will welcome you on the floor with no funds at all as long as you are HERE to welcome! Or, if the floor is full, as a priceless observer among us.

Contact me with intentions, plans, wishes—360 825-3413. You have me as partner to help work it out.

In support, Ron [Ronald Jorgensen]

William Chen has phoned to say he will not be coming for a workshop next year, in 2011. He wanted us to know as soon as he decided so we would have plenty of advance notice. He declared it in these words, "I have made up my mind". He added that he does not know if he will be coming the year after that, 2012.

He made the point that his health is fine. But because he cannot get the time he needs to produce his major book, with self-defense applications, in the packed current schedule, he is dialing down his longer trips next year.

The Highline Tai Chi, Introduction course, beginning on 4 January, is almost full. You should consider it very actively as a high priority option because:

• it is the only course I offer that meets twice a week, a great advantage for learning
• it is also my only course meeting before work on weekdays, a fine way to tune up the day so that it goes far better and far less stressfully
• and too, it is the only course of mine where, in addition to the beginning part of the Form, you learn about 20 remarkable Tai Chi, Chi Kung and Yoga warm ups that improve everything in your physical and metaphysical life.
• your classmates are mostly young and of many families of nations that bring a lot of energy and an exotic quality into the chemistry of your learning experience so afterwards your day is just naturally a good one!

You can see why I say, then, that it is well worth the adjustment you might have to make in your Monday and Wednesday work schedule to accommodate its 8:00-8:50 a.m. time at Highline--very near Seattle and just off I-5. In calling to register at 206 878-3710, extension 3181, you will be guided from there, and if you are told the class is full, just phone me--360 825-3413--and I will get you included.

1. Vigorous Frequent Hand Washing, specially on arriving home (Neem Soap, Indian shops)
2. Thieves Oil (eucalyptus, cloves, lemon, rosemary, cinnamon) [Young Living]
3. Im-en Cap (Immune system nourishment, 11 ingredients+Wild Indigo) [Thorne Research]
4. Silver, colloidal (Magnum) [Your Health, Inc.]
5. Therapeutic Uses of Urine
6. Echinacea (especially for sore throat) [Eclectic Institute]
7. Bicarbonate of Soda & Sea Salt or Listerine & Hydrogen Peroxide Gargle
8. Goldenseal
9. Olives, black or green
10. Ginger, fresh is best
11. Cayenne Pepper (in water)
12. Garlic, fresh is best
13. Zinc
14. Vitamin C [Thorne Research, Inc.]
15. Beta Carotene {Beta PLEX) [Scientific Botanicals]
16. Simhasana (Lion) Pose [Yoga]
17. Pranayamic Alternate Nostril Breathing [Yoga]
18. Dried Cloves (sucked)
19. Stinging Nettle Tea, Also Cumin Tea
20. Temple of Health Tea [The Republic of Tea] (Seven herbs)
21. Green Tea (Camellia Sinenis) [Scientific Botanicals]
22. Cottonwood Salve (with olive oil and beeswax)]
23. Tate’s Natural Miracle Conditioner (about thirty herbal and plant ingredients)
24. Honey with Vinegar
25. Aloe Vera Gel [Real Aloe]
26. Bitter Gourd (a.k.a. Bitter Melon) [East Indian grocery]
27. Adequate Regular Nourishment
28. Immediate Action of Eating Anything, Any Modest Quantity, Emergency
29. Adequate Regular Nightly Sleep
30. Immediate Action of Prone Rest, Any Amount Needed (3 minutes to hours), Emergency
31. A Daily Rest or Nap, Any Amount Less than One Hour
32. Adequate Warmth, Particularly Covering of the Head When Cold
33. Keeping an inviting harmony, order and spaciousness in home, office, vehicle
34. Let Negative Emotions, Also Excitation, Especially Depression, Go Their Way, Not Yours
35. Exercise, Even Minimally, Regularly Daily
36. Play Tai Chi, Even Minimally, Regularly Daily, for “The Joy of the Body Heals the Body”
37. Sing Every Time You Think of It and Feel Like it
38. Listen to or Create Good Music When It Calls You
39. In Stressful, Tense Situations, Focus Attention on Their Core of Peace (always there)
40. Your Wit and Laughter . . . What Qualities Are Better Friends in Flu Season, Any Season?

For more information or help in using this information get a lesson with Ron by phoning him at 360 825-3413 or emailing him ronald@foxinternet.net for flexible times and fees.

How much do you believe in dreams? Not the kind spoken of by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his historic speech—though those are certainly very fine dreams! I’m speaking of that daily garden-variety kind. Many of us don’t remember these very long after waking up and some, not actually that small a number, don’t remember them at all.

We all have our personal sleep patterns, of course. Mine can include several three-to-twenty minute naps a day. What would you say if I told you that lately I’ve been having pretty much daily dreams—some are at night, too—in which I’m being taught by, conversing with, or working out with William Chen? And, too, with Madhav and the Mother—my teachers in the Yoga.

Maybe that’s partly why so many new horizons are appearing and so many new discoveries are keeping my nose where they go! Plus, the social and disciplinary aspects of teaching are provoking me, in the best sense of the word, along, too. I know I’ve said things like the ending of this sentence before—that I feel like I’m starting anew, my teaching and life in general all over. I don’t want to say much at all about it this time; only what I’ve already said quite roughly. For it carries a different weight or heft, so let’s just meet in the Fall and you can see for yourself. I am looking forward, very much, to working with you in a few weeks; before then, we’ve got the phone.