soaring crane

Haha I read that back and lol'd, too.

Ladder through the fog Hand in hand we all ascend High above the mist

Oh, do try to pay attention, Wadsworth ...

800Kb I wish the thumbnails could be made about 4x larger

put it on the head, a bronze bell, a golden crown, give it a good whack.

Horseflies bite soooo hard and they don't let go. I got bit today while standing and blood was running down my leg. And the worst thing is that they follow you, like attack choppers. Grrrr...

Haha happens to the best, and worst, of us 😊

Definitely more ogling going on at the swimsuit-required public swimming pools than textile-forbidden saunas.

also - one of the best qigong books ever!

Uhh you did notice that you're quoting and replying to a post that was written in 2006, right?

huh. I sometimes think about putting together a system built around all the 'little big' things I've learned over the years, and going on tour with it in the US. Nah...

yer asking for it! Fred - look into member 'Ya Mu', he's the man with the Stillness plan :-)

set the example be the oak leaf on the branch swaying with the breeze

hmmm now the lines are orange and the big chunks are purple. Why do I keep returning to this thing? SoG??? Whart did you do here???!

http://thetaobums.com/topic/35188-motherblastingfrikkafrakkin-horseflies/ relevant to the discussion? There are limits to everything and sometimes you just have to man up. Emotions are important and it's unhealthy to wipe them out of your life.

let go of the ulterior

still purple, by the way. Or is it more chakra-cool to say violet?

I see what you did there

Women shave their legs (and everything else) in Germany these days. Just visit any thermal bath/sauna to confirm this (or, do like I did and marry one and have a daughter). And it's true for both sexes Re-modeling and removing body hair is an old, old, old custom that spans the globe. The Celts were heavy into body grooming; and there are paintings on Egyptians pyramids showing quite explicitly how they did it. Except in the pheromone-heavy areas and on the head, human body hair is mostly a superfluous leftover of evolution. We lost it as we developed the erect posture and it became a hindrance to controlling body temperature. The evaporative function of perspiration is one of our secret survival weapons, so, it's only natural that the skin under the hair is more attractive to us than the hair covering it, I guess. I suppose, though, that body hair is also a sign of aging, sigh. And, like it or not, youth is attractive. (I had a biker friend way back when who had flames tattooed to his scalp after he went bald, like Bam-Bam Bigelow haha

Hi chase and welcome You develop the power to push chopsticks through tables. Hope this helps (someone)

No, wait, purple

Green

I thought this was going to be a Feng Shui thread. I see a vulva sometimes. Same thing?

here - observe the man's arms in the opening move, and even moreso on the second move where he raises the arms and opens them, and them closes them again, but doesn't close them all the way: