I’ve decided to label this column “Ed’s Corner.”  Every day, after teaching at New Spirit Middle School (70% Hmong, 30% Latino & African-American) I go to the “corner” of Cleveland & Ford Parkway to have tea.  It’s at the “corner” where all my best thoughts come together.

Already, this has been a spectacular new year, with the school moving into the facilities of Macalester-Plymouth UCC.  In addition, Grandmaster Wong is my “Kung-Fu Brother.”  We were both born in the Year of the Rat.  We were both married in the same year.  He has provided me with the title for the next book to be published on his teachings.  A sequel to the first, it will be titled:  Treasures of Tai Chi Chuan:  Lessons with Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong.  My intention is to have this work in print by the end of 2010.

I close this first column with this quote:  “If you practice one day, you have one day’s benefit.  If you practice 10 days, you have 10 days benefit.  If you don’t practice at all, you have nothing.”