What years of Tai Chi push-hands taught me about staying soft until it counts.
A grounded life doesn’t wait for quiet. It happens in the thick of it.
Primary Choices is a body of writing about the turnings: the passages that change people, and the choices people make inside them. A birth, a wedding, a first job. A diagnosis, a divorce, a death. Some arrive on the best day of a life and some on the worst, and most of them without any warning at all.
I spent about thirty years in business before this. Corporate training, executive roles, a software company I built and sold. I am also an ordained Taoist monk, 22nd generation. I came to it the long way around: raised Jewish, and handed the teachings by a teacher who never said where they came from and who has since died.
I am not a scholar of Taoism. I don’t read classical Chinese. What I have is about twenty years inside these teachings and a life that needed them.
The work has moved toward the end of life. I’ve gone into hospice work here in Olympia. Chaplaincy may be where it leads. I’m finding out from the inside.
You can put forty minutes on my calendar. By phone. No intake, no assessment, no fee.
You don’t have to be in the middle of something to use it. Some people call because they have decided something and haven’t said it out loud yet. Others want to say the thing once, to someone who won’t have to live with the answer. Some are in the middle of the worst of it.
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