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a season's greetings card




a season's greetings card
We can all feel it -- the coming into the major holiday season which will culminate in an eternally  hyped up New Years.   It's, as oft-noted, very commercial,  ironically materialistic  and the season  sometimes feels like just too much!  (If I hear the little drummer boy piped into the supermarket one more time kind of thing)   


 But there's a lot of fun stuff, --  joyful giving and receiving of gifts, the  coming together to eat food that's not good for you, just in general  "being merry"  on the streets, in friends'  homes.  

 But, well.   sigh.  deep sigh.    sometimes there's a sadness mixed in.  

Many of us remember happier times,  or feel more sharply,  losses that have occurred over the past year. and before.   The holidays can be as difficult as they can be merry.     
I've drawn from the Taoist philosopher,  Lao Tzu, who is one of those thinkers and writers  to whom practitioners of the Taoist arts (of which t'ai chi is one) refer,   to provide a something steadying to hold on to,  and he reminds us that that something is ourselves and our self-knowledge.  

 Lao Tzu  says it much better...

 At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. 
As we move into higher and higher gear over the coming weeks,   I hope you hang on OK,  stay grounded...and find contentment.  

 jing, 

 Susan

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