stress slacking

I feel like what I was doing the first week is completely different then what I am doing now. I am working from home... but I have been slacking on my creative endeavors. I haven't even been doing much TV watching. I guess I have been focusing on working out more than anything. I have also re established KungbFu class. Meditation Mondays, Tai Chi Tuesdays, Wang Wednesdays ( Christie Wang's work out session on the Hydrow. The kids will hurt themselves if they use the machine. Other kids can do it but my kids are bot ready for that) Thursdays are a regular external class.... Training Thursdays. Fun Fridays. ( we are gonna do energy guns and Ninja stars.  I need to get protective eye wear. Slacker Saturdays ( ie nothing for now...or maybe we can do Silly Saturdays or something like that. ) and then Salute to Sun Sundays. Just do the Yoga Salute to Sun a bunch of times... that's kind of Churchy right?    Today every time I sit down or try to have my own thought the kids are doing something. I mean they were good when I was working but.... well we'll see. It looks like I have to schedule my blog entries and reading time and writing the movie script I had an idea for. In fact I had said they were gonna help me with that....we'll see. 

disconnect

Does anyone else feel like there is a real disconnect between what I am experiencing in life, basically as a frog at the bottom of the well, and what I am seeing on the news? The news comes from New York which is not that far away. And even local news.... I mean I feel like... okay we are almost good. It could be time to go outside now....but then I read. Ot only about deaths buy the way in which it happens and I am like, hell no.  We are not leaving the house.  Even if we somehow catch it, then we will handle it all here live or die. Because it really doesn't look like there is much they can do for you anyway. In China they had Hazmat suits on... but the doctors and nurses in NY are wearing a flimsy looking mask and no goggles...almostbas if nobody in this country was following the South China Morning post or countless other online media covering China... which had video and subtitles. Maybe they could be considered unreliable I don't know, but better than  nothing. It was in English too btw. I am realizing that no...even if we open up... I might have to put my foot down and really say that no we are going to be the "crazy ones" and just not leave the house. I am also seeing that what I called social distancing is what others would have called quarantine. And what they call social distancing....I think I would have considered to be just normal life.

ye jook

Before when I heard about eating ye jook meaning that you practiced real kung fu I thought it meant you were so bad ass that you practiced all day and all night. But now it means something ih ngbdifgerent. Yes I had time to practice King Fu earlier in the day when my kids were asking me questions and I was doing other things and washing dishes and eating and all that. I had time...  but did I have focus? Even though right now in the middle of the noght6I am not practicing particularly hard... I feel that I am at least actually able to practice. Now granted, I could have played caked with my kids and worked some sort of play time into training the way I so often did on the playground when they were smaller. Even though that practice isnt as focused it may even be better because it would be dealing with another person and be more dynamic. It may even be better than practicing alone in the dark and not ne6trying that hard and being limited by the space and all that. But practicing in the dark when everyone else is asleep has a different mental feeling. I mean just compare this little writing session with the two sentences I tried to string together earlier in day light when I "had time."

Goals

I told myself I was going to practice Kung Fu several times a day. To tell the truth now that I have more time, I am definitely doing less. I am even doing less than I was doing when we first starting staying in the house. It is like it takes an effort to be someone that is staying in the house all day... well sort of. At any rate, I am actually going to do more reading and practicing today and not rely as much on Facebook or other devices, (this is what I say as I blog) But I feel like it is important for me to write down my thoughts everyday, just as I told my children to do. Mostly I have been talking with my family which I guess is a good thing, and that is why I haven't "gotten as much done"

I need to write even if it is about nothing, just to remember that I know how to do it I suppose. I am looking at this and seeing that I have not even filed a page. Mostly because I was interupted several times while writing. So maybe I have to choose another time  to do this in the day. I have written all this and said very little so perhaps for today, I am done with this and will talk to my wife instead.

rabbit Ram head

I did the first coat of paper mache over this creature I made. It has a horn like a Kei Lun and Nian. But it also has bunny ears and ram horns. It kind if looks evil and a. It like a fertility pagan demon with sharp teeth. A little like Seshomaru actually. I didnt want to use flour for paper mache because in this time of social distance quarantine flour is very valuable. We use it to make bread. Instead I used some wood glue which I had bought to patch up the drum I had which had cracked a bit. I may have made the mixture too watery... but I'm getting better at it and am confident the next head I make with paper mache wont have a paper mache problem. Here are the next two projects I am planning after this head is done. I want to make a lion head. Real sized. But I need more bamboo. I don't want to have to get cheap with the bamboo strips. But also.... I want to make the whole head entirely out of bamboo. That is to say, it will be a fram that is so reinforced that it won't require paper mache. This just means putting more strips and weaving them into the frame. I also want to heat some bamboo poles to bend them to be the main parts of the frame in addition to thinner bamboo strips. I am sure this will all be more difficult than I imagine but I hope it will like cool and be freaking strong.

My Kung Fu digital Neighborhood

I just finished watching A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood with Tom Hanks. It makes me want to watch all the old episodes of Mr. Roger's neighborhood and also read the article the movie is based on with Noah and Jonah. I think it would be cool to do Kung Fu from a Mt. Rogers's experience. I had thought of the idea before when changing from my regular shoes at the old Moh Goon into Kung Fu shoes. But back then I thought of it more as a joke. I feel like I could do an approximation of such a show at my house where instead of Trolley and that sort of thing I have lion heads and drums. Now in my kind it would also be cool to stop by places and have people that stop by who speak Taishanese and want to share their stories etc. You know, people that used to stop by Moh Goon. Even drug addicts. Actually in Boston, there were many types of people who would stop by from homeless and robbers and thieves and politicians to Scientists, Professors and entrepreneurs. Jamaica Plain also had very interesting people at the playground. I also have an idea for a screen play ok n my mind that I think I really should put effort into now. To finish it and craft it and sharpen it.

Advanced class?

So for Kung Fu the kids decided not only to have separate classes but to alternate days. This works for me. I put on a mask to teach Shao cause although its unlikely I caught anything from the package pass, and it's highly likely if I did then we are all screwed anyway.... I dont know I just put it on. Yesterday with Jonah we did only the first four standing g basics and only 20 each, but we got down real low in horse stance to do them. For waling basics I just did Chuen pow cup cause those three moves were always the famous ones in Taishan. Then we did Luk Lik real slow. 六 力。Cool, keep forgetting I can type on Chinese as long as I can figure out the Pin yin. That actually took about an hour believe it or not. We took breaks and stuff though. With Noah today I had him do basics freestyle one his own. And he has gotten worse partially because of all the screen time affecting posture, but also he doesnt do well on the spot. He does better when doing the moves himse6when no o e is watching and these past few years he has preferred weapons. So we argued cause he just doesnt take coaching well. But then we moved on to
 十字 and I worked with him on drilling some of the moves in a striking format. Then he did a stick form and a sword form. Part of Guan Gong do, and then some milk tai chi with some light grappling l ok ke drills and then from a more Yoga like perspective just to get balance. I think we did all that in 30 minutes actually.