Long ago, in the Northern Sung mountains, tai chi mantis style was born. The body moves in a studied insect fluency. Fifteen minutes, twenty, thirty movements become hundreds, the sudden clap and leap, the introverted hook following fixed eye, breathing.
James, 42, has been practicing Tai Chi since he was fifteen. In Taiwan, he remembers watching his teacher wind slowly through true mastery, and despairing. This morning he rises and enters his garden
in America, renewing the pose, reciting it to himself, edging years into his own chi.
Later, in our sunlit salon, small and spare, James dedicates the mantis with strong monkey feet to my husband.
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chi
James, 42, has been practicing Tai Chi since he was fifteen. In Taiwan, he remembers watching his teacher wind slowly through true mastery, and despairing. This morning he rises and enters his garden
in America, renewing the pose, reciting it to himself, edging years into his own chi.
Later, in our sunlit salon, small and spare, James dedicates the mantis with strong monkey feet to my husband.
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