Today's Schedule:

5:15-6:15pm Aikido Fundamentals. Bill Allen

6:30-7:30pm Aikido. Kensho Furuya

If there are students who wish to participate in the November Seminar with Isoyama Sensei, please let me know.

November 10-12. $175.00 per person, participation fee.

November 4. Joint practice at the Chushinkan Dojo in Buena Park. No fee & everyone is invited to participate. We will all go together to have a nice lunch at an Indian all-you-can-eat buffet. Dutch treat, of course.

Please sign up for our Christmas Party on December 3. This party will have many, many Surprises so please do not miss it! Sign-up now in the Dojo. See Coordinators, Carol Tanita and David Ito about our gift exchange, if you like.

TOO BUSY:

Please keep up your regular training schedule. We all lead a busy lives and we all have too many repsonsibilities beyond what we can normally handle. Why are we so busy? Why can't we exert some control on our lives? Why are we constantly running around like a chicken with its head cut off? It is an important question to ask yourselves each day.

I lead a very reclusive, peaceful life in the dojo, yet, everyday I am swamped with all kinds of work. Sometimes, I think that it is amazing that I have so much to do when I rarely go out. Sometimes, I think that it is ridiculous no matter what you do in society today, one is just forced to be so busy.

I do not know why, but someone wrote that by reading my messages here and in the Yahoo group that I must not be busy at all. . . . . part of contributing to the Yahoo group and my Daily Messages here is in response to many, many emails I receive each day. The internet is not the best way to communicate, I believe, but it is very convenient and fast and cheap.

I was very upset that someone could assume that from the tone of my messages that maybe I am not busy. Sometimes, I just have no idea what people are thinking. As much as I do not want to be busy, it is busy here everyday. . . and even with many students assisting me, the work does not diminish.

Maybe I should write in a way that I sound very busy, I do not know. Anyways, like myself, I know that we are all too busy - and why? This is what I would like to know!

Have a great day today!

PS: Nowadays, I do too much correspondence by email and internet. I used to sit down and spend a little time to write to an old friend who is an authority on swords. I always receive the most beautiful letter from him and I have saved each one over many years. Somehow, he makes the simplest message sound like wonderful poetry. And even without the content or message, just the reading or sound of the words alone, can mesmerize a person. We do not write like this anymore. . . . And some people write in the rudest way. . . . no fun!