One Hand Speaks

My year 2022 in review.

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Show Notes:

2022... What an interesting year.

Resources:

Happy New Year 2022, Day 1 - Podcast #244.

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Play Your Hand!

This podcast is a simple reflection of what I have been noticing in my body in my late forties and early fifties. This is not your standard "my body hurts as I age" commentary. But more the one-handed overtones I have been feeling in my body as I age.

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Show Notes:

The one-handed overtones I have been feeling in my body as I age.

I wish I knew older one-handed people to offer one-handed aging advice when I was young.

Resources:

Naturally Asymmetrical - Podcast #043.

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When I was in the first few years of primary school, something extremely uncomfortable happened to me and another student born with disabilities. I attended St. John The Baptist, a private Catholic Elementary (grades 1 to 8) school in South Bend, Indiana. When I look back on it I can understand the intention of what they were doing. It does seem like they were trying to do good. However, it was incredibly uncomfortable for me as a one handed very young child. That experience had an impact on me then and still does in some way now. I say this because the experience is one of my early memories of one-handedness that I have never forgotten and comes up in my thinking enough to notice. Seems like a good topic for a podcast.

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Show Notes:

Some early experience do have a lastly impact on children.

This podcast is not a negative statement about attending Private Catholic school.

This is more about how the general human condition can fall short.

("The rode to hell is paved with good intentions")

Resources:

St. John The Baptist, private Catholic Elementary school - Where I did the 1st through 8th grades. (The link is broken)

John The Baptist - Some Wiki info.

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Part 2 of a two part contemplation about the quality of two one-handed interactions I have had with people around me. They are two side of the proverbial "same coin." These two interactions have been in my thoughts often of late. So much that I noticed I would consider them in the same stream of thinking. It was at that point I thought they would make good podcast even if they lean more to the serious side. 

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Show Notes:

It is interesting how my subtle perception about my one handedness can impact others.

Resources:

The Buddha Path - The Teachings of Buddha

Teja Bell - Qiging and Dharma

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Part 1 of a two part contemplation about the quality of two one-handed interactions I have had with people around me. They are two side of the proverbial "same coin." These two interactions have been in my thoughts often of late. So much that I noticed I would consider them in the same stream of thinking. It was at that point I thought they would make good podcast even if they lean more to the serious side. 

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Show Notes:

It is interesting how other people's subtle perception about my one handedness and the limits they put on me can impact me.

Resources:

The Buddha Path - The Teachings of Buddha

Teja Bell - Qiging and Dharma

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Today, Tuesday November 29th 2022 I turned 54 years old. I just want to share a few things that have been popping up for me at this time on social media.

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Show Notes:

A cool YouTuber named @Sprouht asks older people a series of questions about aging, being old, and advice to pass on to younger people.

Resources:

Will Rossy - @Sprouht

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This past week I did a very short Aikido demonstration here in Idaho at a local dojo's 25 year anniversary celebration. There were a lot of people, children, demos, and laughter. At a slower moment during the event a young boy approached me and asked me a most incredible question.

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Show Notes:

A you boy asked me asked if I like the way I a. What a great question.

Resources:

Three Shapes Aikido - My Aikido Dojo.

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The beginning of twenty years seems so long. At the end of twenty years, the time passed seems so short. Such a milestone is twenty years of anything. For me it is twenty years of doing Aikido (a bit longer) and teaching Aikido. Twenty years (also a bit longer) employment at the Bureau of Reclamation. Twenty years since my father passed away. Twenty years (more like twenty three) a Buddhist in both the Rinzai Zen and Tibetan Dzogchen Vajrayana. All this arose when I realized I have been a direct student of Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and Tibet Buddhism for twenty years. Twenty years... What a milestone!!

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Show Notes:

Twenty years employed at the Bureau of Reclamation.

Twenty years practicing and teaching Aikido.

Twenty years since my father passed.

Twenty years a Buddhist student of Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche 

Resources:

Three Shapes Aikido - My Aikido Dojo.

The Buddha Path - My Buddhist Dzogchen Lineage and teacher of the Tibetan Dzogchen Vajrayana.

Reclamation - My place of employment.

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I was originally going to do this podcast two weeks ago on the day it happened. However, I contracted covid and everything got tossed around for about a week. But one day just about two weeks ago, I ran into 5 different people who either lived near the 10th Street Dojo in Boise's North end, were students of 3 Shapes Aikido, or were the parents of students in my dojo. 

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Show Notes:

I ran in 5 people/families from the days of the original 3 Shapes Aikido in Boise, Idaho's historic North End Community.

The 10th street Dojo in Boise.

Reshape your life. Three Shapes Aikido.

Resources:

Three Shapes Aikido - My Aikido Dojo.

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This is part 2 of my two-part series about getting the Coronavirus. This is after about 5 days past getting tested. I will continue to share how much it sucked, how the symptoms changed over a couple of days, and how I am feeling today.

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Show Notes:

Now I have an extreme cough.

I also have the chills.

Resources:

CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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