Grasp the Sparrow’s Opportunity

photo by Mark Hang Fung So at Unsplash

I hadn’t taught Tai Chi in nearly forty years, not that I was any sort of officially sanctioned instructor, but in the 1970’s my enthusiasm for the practice spilled over into the alley behind my house and led a few friends to join me in catching the sparrow. It had been a dream of mine to become, one day, a ‘real’ instructor. I traipsed from the Midwest to New York to study at Chein Man-Chang’s school at 54 Broadway and studied as…